On Apr 3, 12:42=A0am, pete m <pmac...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Apr 2, 9:23 pm, Ingeborg S. Nord=E9n <isnor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Apr 2, 6:26 pm, pete m <pmac...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > On Apr 2, 4:11 pm, Ingeborg S. Nord=E9n <isnor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > On Apr 2, 5:55 pm, pete m <pmac...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > > After the previous comment, I thought of 'monstrous hoofbeats
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> > > > > through the underworld,' but I can't recall what time of day
Sleip=
nir
> > > > > makes his rounds.
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> > > > None of the Norse legends associate Odin's riding Sleipnir with a
> > > > specific time of day, so that reference could be used for any time
> > > > message. =A0I'd probably delete the "underworld" reference,
though,
> > > > since Sleipnir has been associated with the wind (and Odin lives
in
> > > > Asgard, the local version of heaven).
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> > > I vaguely remembered Sleipnir making his own rounds once a day, to
> > > carry dead heroes to the underworld.
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> > > In any case, 'Monstrous footsteps echo through the nine worlds'
still
> > > scans better than "You remember that..."
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> > I'd need a verifiable source for Sleipnir making his own rounds, since
> > Norseband's "serious" material (most of it) should be as true to myth
> > as *band-style gameplay allows. =A0If it's genuine myth, that bit of
> > trivia seems better suited to Sleipnir's description in the monster
> > files. =A0(I probably will use some "supernatural beings passing by"
> > message for that time range, though; most players wouldn't recognize
> > the line I originally quoted from the Eddas. =A0*blush*)
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> Well, I found a few sites after filtering out the ManOWar lyrics... :)
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> Here's the reasonably credible
cite:http://users.dickinson.edu/~eddyb/myth=
ology/Gods-1.html
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> Here are the lyrics of ManOWar's 'Sleipnir', first verse (sorry about
> the ALLCAPS). =A0I've never heard it, that I know of :/
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> CARRY WE WHO DIE IN BATTLE
> OVER LAND AND SEA
> ACROSS THE RAINBOW BRIDGE TO VALHALLA
> ODIN'S WAITING FOR ME
> HE WAS BORN OF GIANTS
> HIS ICY COAT IS GREY
> AT NIGHT HE RIDES INTO THE WORLD OF DEATH
> THE LIVING BY DAY
> ONE DAY ON HIS BACK I SHALL RIDE
> FROM THE BATTLEFIELD INTO THE SKY
> BORNE BY VALKYRIES WE VALIANT DEAD
> INTO THE HALL OF HEROES SHALL BE LED- Hide quoted text -
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Hmmm, I'd heard of fallen heroes being allowed to ride Sleipnir into
Valhalla (which is part of Asgard btw, not of the underworld). I
hadn't heard of the horse going around collecting the dead on its own,
though; that always seems to be the Valkyries' job. So if Sleipnir
gets a mention in the 9:00 PM message, I'd probably phrase it: "You
hear ghostly hoofbeats in the distance."
--
Ingeborg S. Nord=E9n
(isnorden@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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