I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M
Date Sent:06-Dec-1993 02:25pm
From: Alistair Langsford
LANGSFORD ALISTAIR
Dept: Information Services
Tel No: 289 7870
TO: Remote Addressee ( _traveller@engrg.uwo.ca )
Subject: vargr & salvage
On the origin of Vargr....
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I once saw a book titled 'Vargr' or 'Vargr Moon', or something similar.
I was at once intrigued, and so had a look: I was of course thinking
it was Traveller based.
It was about Scandinavian wolf creatures - they might have been werewolves.
I think they were supposed to be from Norse mythology. Since it was a
'Horror' story (well it was in the Horror section) I left it alone, as I am
not a fan of most Horror.
This was about 5 years ago, so I don't know how accurate my memory is.
After all, I was 25+ years old at the time....8-)
You might also note the similarity between the word -vargr- and the word
- -warg- (describing a large supernatural wolf) in Tolkien's Lord of the
Rings. A lot of Tolkien is inspired by Norse mythology, including names.
On Salvage....
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I once had occasion to check about salvage too. I cannot remember the
details, but I do remember I found a lot of quite good information in the
Encyclopaedia Brittanica.
Alistair,
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