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- From: leifmk@Lise.Unit.NO (Leif Magnar Kj|nn|y)
- Subject: Re: Lords and Ladies references and query
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.211552.9909@ugle.unit.no>
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
- References: <1992Nov17.094528.13083@turing.ac.uk> <lsmith.722208529@exa>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 21:15:52 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <lsmith.722208529@exa>, lsmith@exa.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith) writes:
- > In <1992Nov17.094528.13083@turing.ac.uk> robin@duich.turing.ac.uk (Robin Boswell) writes:
- >
- >
- > > Half-way down p. 62 of the British edition of "Lords and Ladies",
- > >there's a list of five terms for lands beyond the mundane.
- > >The first, "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" sounds
- > >familiar, but I can't identify the reference. Can anyone
- > >help?
- >
- > Seems to be a popular title.
- >
- > Theodore Roosevelt used it for a book on hunting that he wrote in
- > 1926.
- >
- > Asbjornsen and Moe used it for a collection of Norwegian fairy
- > tales. (Asbjornsen and Moe both died in the 1880s so this predates
- > Tolkien and Roosevelt.) I couldn't say whether the expression is
- > from traditional folktales or not.
- >
- > If I remember correctly, the story involves a girl traveling great
- > distances (apply title here) to save someone from an evil spell.
- >
- > ----------------------------
- > Lance "Cr2O3.2H2O" Smith | "I aint never seen the peanut before. Maybe Bugs
- > (lsmith@cs.umn.edu) | just hired himself some new muscle. Doesn't
- > Will be President | matter. Put 'im up against the wall with the
- > for food | rest." _Mr Peanut in Chicago_
-
- Yeah, it is a quite common expression from traditional folktales. In fact, the
- only ones I can think of right now that are more common to the ones I'm familiar
- with, are "Once upon a time..." and "...they lived happily ever after."
-
- -Leif.
-