Jane Williams
> I'd treat the "Vinga as Heort's daughter" idea with a
> bit of caution: quite a lot of people believe she's a
> goddess, and the daughter of Orlanth, not Heort. A
> Vingan heroine could well have been Heort's daughter,
> but that's different.
A Vingan heroine is ok.
> > to have mercy when she saw the doe had puppy,
>
> A fawn? Unless some very odd inter-species breeding
> was going on?
Oops. A fawn, sure. I thought a puppy was good for every animal.
Terra Incognita
> Maybe in primitive mythology of dawn age, (as John Hughes' Taroskarla?)
> Heort was a sort of Psychopomp between Life (Time) and Death (Darkness)
like
> CERNUNNOS or old RQ 3rd Horned Man.
Hmm... Perhaps it is mythically more correct for the king to hunt down the
winter deer (the Twins' fawn) in order to end winter?
The Vingan's role would then be to help the fawn's birth against wolves and
such so that it can grow to adulthood and get killed, like she did when Heort
was born.
If I keep to my first idea, the king has got to kill the winter deer, but the
mother,
Heort's daughter (Estava?), gives birth to a son who returns to his stead and
joins the clan.
Jerome
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