What do we call ourselves?

Steinar Knutsen sk at fyemf.fys.ntnu.no
Mon Dec 13 10:58:28 EST 1999


In article <hfM44.5646$Cl3.32633 at news-server.bigpond.net.au>, John Leach
<bbosware at vic.bigpond.net.au> wrote:

>This is getting totally off the point, but did Red Hat name one of
>their distributions Hedwig after Harry Potter's owl or was it named for
>something else?

I didn't know about Red Hat's «Hedwig» before you mentioned it, but
Ibsen's «Hedvig» in the play «The Wild Duck» (Vildanden) would be my
first guess.

(But then again, it could also be St Hedwig (1174-1243), an owl, or
something completely different. :) )
-- 
Steinar



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