Posted by Robert Ruork on May 27, 1998 at 15:31:48:
In Reply to: Princes of Bjorkland posted by Dom Ciocca. Jr. on May 27, 1998 at 14:57:38:
: Doesn't Bjork mean something in a Scand. language, whwere JV is lionized? Anybody know? Or care? Dom
:: Bjork is, I believe, the Icelandinc form of the Old Teut. word "bork" or "berg" -- meaning any fortified town, or a settlement somewhere between a village and a city -- specifically, one which sends representatives to an overall governing body or parliament.
::J.V. may very well have meant the pop "princess", Bjork, if only because she presents such a fascinatingly bizarre public persona -- anyone who has read Frazer's "Golden Bough" will understand how much of the Master's alien/fantastic peoples and societies have their basis here on Old Earth.