Re: The Fall of Whitewall

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_sNeNR-bMvk39x8LpDsPYhP9Q36zs9nxv3uFF150G9YMEzQtOPTCWj28tqUp0hLWJNv1>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:02:59 +1300


At 10:40 p.m. 16/03/2007, you wrote:
>On the Fimbulwinter not being registered in KoS other than by
>Minaryth Blue's 'Ashart dies of heat' (IIRC) this can be explained
>by the event being so well-known that nobody has to refer directly
>to it in documents written by and for people who had lived through it.
>
>The analogy would be someone from London leaving a note saying
>'September 19th 1940: Jennie killed by bomb'.

Yeah, but the point is that "heat" is not quite an cause of death one expects from the Fimbulwinter. It would be like leaving a note that somebody had been killed by a tripod during the blitz - it's unexpected and
it jars with the general information of the period.

--Peter Metcalfe            

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