wiki-illiam #104: q5

[dubdobdee]

5: Travelling from Nordic lands, try unravelling:
i: the eponymous traitor,
ii: then Merrill's famed fisherman partner
iii: and a misplaced cygnet,
iv: contrasting with a little anser,
v: thousands of whose elders visit a Waddenzee barrier island,
vi: while in Belgium, memories of Ursula are awakened by a Flemish Primitive,
vii: and in the Amblève, or perhaps the Lesse, one might confusingly make geometry a sport
viii: and try to catch a little trout
ix: or even its seemingly lepidopteran relative
x: before celebrating in Germany with Piesport's speciality

the rules as they have evolved:
a: nice full answers and anecdotes if poss
b: say if googled or no; leave time for non-googlers to play
c: obviously look ahead at future questions if you want
d: don't bring in confirming or dissenting answers from other fora until next set is up and running

spoilers: i is vidkun quisling of norway (its collaborating under the nazis, hence a "quisling"); iii is hans christian andersen's ugly duckling, of denmark -- can't work out the overall idea though (ie what "unravel" might mean)

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

ii) Merrill's partner is clearly LYNCH, and googling brings up this book so it MUST be true (nb may not be true).

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

x: Piesport is a German white wine apparently (alas not a sport involving PIE as I had originally hoped).

(these are all google-o btw, I have no bloody clue otherwise)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

viii) and ix): Small Trout and Butterfly Trout are methods of cooking it! No idea about the Nordic connection tho :(

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

Piesporter is the wine, Piesport where it comes from i guess...

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i am now singing "the ugly duckling" (as featured in the film version of Hans Christian Andersen starring Danny Kaye) and ph34r i may be doing so all day...

Wild theory corner

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Has Ravel written music about all the above?

Re: Wild theory corner

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha ravel's QUISLING CONCERTO

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

'little trout' makes me think Schubert, no idea how that would fit.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

nah, ignore me, seems to be no connection.

??? (from wiki)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"The Master of the Legend of Saint Ursula was a Flemish painter active in the fifteenth century. His name is derived from a polyptych depicting scenes from the life of Saint Ursula painted for the convent of the Black Sisters of Bruges; the city appears in the background of a number of the paintings, in which the belfry and tower of the Church of Notre-Dame. Consequently it is possible, given the stages of construction of the belfry, to determine that the altarpiece was painted either before 1483 or somewhere between 1493 and 1499. Today the panels have been dispersed to a number of museums around the world."

Re: ??? (from wiki) iv

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

Anser appears to be a genus of goose related birds with the smallest being Ross's Goose. um, "ing"...

THINGS ENDING IN(G) ING

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i: quisling
ii:
iii: duckling
iv:
v:
vi: painting
vii:
viii: fishing (bit feeble)
ix: cooking (worse)
x: reisling

Re: THINGS ENDING IN(G) ING

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

is a herring not a little trout of sorts?

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

vii ANGLING

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Because 1. LING and 2. bad pun.

not relevant to quiz but awesome anyway

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

wiki: "The Battle of Amblève took place in 716 near Amel. The mayor of the palace of Austrasia, Charles Martel, defeated his Neustrian and Frisian rivals who were led by King Chilperic II, his mayor Ragenfrid, and Radbod, Duke of the Frisians."

freakytiggah take note

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

radbod is the nu-gaffsie

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

iv GOSLING, surely?

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

was just coming to say exactly this!

(inadvertently) via another site answering this question

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

a "herling" is a small sea trout; a young trout (or any young fish) is a "fingerling"

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

So: vii) is 'angling' (geometry) then viii) is 'troutling'?

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

oops now redundant from ddd's ans. above/

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

MEMLING. Flemish Primitive painter, apparently a big collection of whose work is held in Bruges.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Still no joy on Merrill, although have turned up a book by a Jean Merrill called The Toothpaste Millionaire!

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Lynch-ing, surely.

so far (x-posts excepted)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

THINGS ENDING IN(G) ING
dubdobdee
2009-01-05 11:18 am UTC (link) Select
i: quisling
ii:
iii: duckling
iv: gosling
v: tershelling
vi: memling
vii: angling
viii: herling or troutling or fingerling
ix:
x: reisling

Re: so far (x-posts excepted)

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

ix. leads back to butterfly trout.

LING number 9

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

The butterfly one is a grayling (which is also a fish IIRC)

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

re "Travelling from Nordic lands": seems to follow a reasonable geographical path here: Norway - ? - Denmark - - Frisian island of Netherlands - Bruges in Belgium - Belgian rivers - - - Germany.

Guess should we look in Norway/Sweden/Denmark for ii, then.

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Memling's Saint Ursula shrine can be seen abt 2/3 down here (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.fairweather/docs/Bruges_and_Cologne.htm) btw.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

have you noticed that ppl be back in the office today... ;)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

last year the graun only put the quiz up on new year's