MDDM Stig & Zhang

[Terrance]

jbor wrote:
> 
> > Stig:  "let us say, that my people are of the North, Northern and very
> > White, so white in fact that you British to us appear as do Africans, to
> > you." (612.33)
> 
> At first I was going to suggest that Stig is implying that he comes from one
> of those Hollow Earth civilisations (602-3), but with the reference to the
> "Frost eternal ... beneath that all-night Sun" (612.5) I think he's probably
> one of the Sami people, a Laplander (cf. 544.35). Dixon's suggestion that
> he's a "Swedish Jacobite" (611.15) is in fact apt:
> 
> "From the 17th century the kingdoms of Norway and Sweden tried to assimilate
> the Sami by converting them into Christianity and forbidding their language.
> 
> The creation of national borders and division of the Nordic territories
> between Sweden, Norway and Finland obliged the Sami to adapt to the culture
> of the country they had to live in."
> 
> http://www.scandinavica.com/sami.htm
> 
> (NB also: "The Sami religious belief is animistic, believing that everything
> in nature from animals to minerals have a soul.")
> 
> http://www.laplandfinland.com/select_language.asp

Interesting, but I think Dixon might be referring to that secret
regiment of Swedes sent to support the jacobite in 1745.  Dixon seems to
know his Jacobite history and Stig strikes me as another one of Mason's
dream/dramatic characters. Recall that Mason, much to Dixon's surprise,
claims to have  been a supporter of the Jacobite. 



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