a bit more Re: MDDM Ch. 62 Stig

[Tim Strzechowski]

> (I hit the send button too soon awhile ago)

It happens . . .

> I wrote:
> In Stig's tale, his use of the phrase "own Ancient days" is ambiguous --
it
> can be read as a time before visitation by the first Northmen when murder
> and slavery already existed and magic was already broken, or as a time
long
> ago when the first Northmen came and brought murder and slavery and broke
> the old Magic.    Likewise, "that the 'new' Continent Europeans found" is
> ambiguous -- are those Europeans the Europeans who came to America in the
> 15th century, or those who came to America in centuries earlier, in the
> 11th century?
>

Owing to the general style of the novel and the antiquated way in which
characters speak, I read the "'new' Continent Europeans" as synonymous with
"New World" Europeans (i.e. those in search of the New World), thus making
it those who came in the 15th century. For me, "murder, slavery, and the
poor fragments of a Magic irreparably broken" refers to the types of
negatives brought to these shores by Columbus et al.

Tim