[LMB] Heads-up: The Dratsab's Day

[Robert Woodward]

On Feb 2, 2008, at 5:42 AM, M Hämäläinen wrote:

>> From: Raye Johnsen <raye_j at yahoo.com>
>>
>> Doesn't Halla, the saint of the Bastard in 'The
>> Hallowed Hunt', refer to Him as 'the Dratsab'?
>>
>> I remember reading it, smiling and thinking,
>> /Non-listees are so not going to get the 'why' of
>> that.../
>
>
> Indeed. Everytime I read it I also pity the poor translators who  
> have to
> tackle that one.
>
> BTW: Hallana, not Halla. :)
>

And I don't think she was a saint either, just a Temple Sorcerer.


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