Three crew members from the all-women European spaceship, the Europa, go EVA:
"Space gloomed and glittered around them. The sun was a fire too fierce to look at, the Milky Way an infinitely cold cataract, stars and stars filled the sky -" (p. 44)
Sigrid Holmen, Swedish, reflecting on the silence of space and the noise of her own breath, refers to Fenja and Menja, a myth with which I was unfamiliar. However, the Wiki article refers to familiar figures: Hrolf Kraki, Yrsa, Frodi and Halfdan.
That is quite a lot of cross-reference.
7 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Frodhi the Peace Good had one flaw as King, avarice. Because of his greed in refusing to allow the giantesses Fenja and Menja to rest, they placed a curse on him. And King Frodhi was soon overthrown by a hostile army.
Sean
Sean,
I hope you are reading my responses to comments on the blog because I am at least temporarily unable to forward any email notifications of them.
Paul.
Now I can again.
Kaor, Paul!
I have been and I have been finally getting email notifications as well.
Sean
The notifications are still slow.
Kaor, Paul!
Some glitch in the system?
Sean
Must be.
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