Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sjuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!princeton!astrovax!sjuvax!smw From: smw@sjuvax.UUCP (Stewart Wiener) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Questions on TFS Message-ID: <578@sjuvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 23-Oct-84 18:51:26 EDT Article-I.D.: sjuvax.578 Posted: Tue Oct 23 18:51:26 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 25-Oct-84 02:38:49 EDT References: <407@hogpd.UUCP> Organization: St. Joseph's Univ., Phila., PA Lines: 7 You might also notice that the word "yngvi" is used throughout *The Flying Sorcerors* to mean "louse". The origin of this is L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt's stories of Harold Shea (five of them, available in paperback as "The Compleat Enchanter" and "Wall of Serpents") -- in one of which a mad prisoner in a dungeon shouts, every hour on the hour, "Yngvi is a louse!!" -- Stewart Wiener / St. Joseph's University / allegra!sjuvax!smw