MDDM Ch. 62 Stig

[Terrance]

Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> Maybe he is a Laplander.  Maybe he's from the hollow earth.  Or someplace
> else up north.
> Pynchon doesn't say, but he does seem to invite us to try to puzzle it out.
> 
> >"Stig (unattributed): "Sir,-- 'tis for you to work out ... " (612-3)

I think I have puzzled it out and he is not a Saami or Sami. He may be
called a Laplander, but this doesn't say much, unless we are using the
term in some derogatory sense. I think he is from Iceland. 

612.6-13 "In the Royal Library in Copenhagen lies an ancient Vellum
Manuscript, a gift from Bishop Brynjolf to Frederick the Third,
containing Tales of the first Northmen in America, of those long Winters
and the
dread Miracles that must come to pass before Spring....

Now, I suspect that Jbor is on to something because the Chapter begins
in the Conoloways (this is in fact where Dixon and Mason were on this
particular day, even the weather--snow--is accurate) on an odd day for
the first point of Aries and we are hearing about Revenge and Beasts
outside the Fire-light again. A dispute, ancient and dramatic is
unfolding,  haunting the RC via the possession of poor Mason. This will
take some time to work out, but it's all about the land, the imagined
one, the proscribed and manifest one, the map, the mapping, the
possession of, the dram about, etc....

Help Moni, please! Anyway, seems that we can't know exactly or
definitively, it would amount to reading whip scars or reefers in GR or
leaning on the scarred back of the African like Mondaugan at the end of
his tale--we simply don't know the language or dialect. Mason is talking
in his sleep, the drama belongs to Stig, it is in a language none have
heard.