[Dragaera] Some observations concerning the name Ibronka, with tangents

[Louis Eastman]

On 9/22/06, Davdi Silverrock <davdisil at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Do you know, Google has less than 400 hits total on this name.
>
> If you subtract out various Brustian words (-dragaera -dzur -piro
> -vlad) to remove hits related to his works, the number of hits drops
> below 180.
>
> All of the remaining hits appear to be references to the story "Pretty
> Maid Ibronka" (Sometimes in German, "Schön Ibronka", or the original,
> "Sziépjány Ibronka"), or to a character with that name in some sort of
> play title "Táltos János" (interestingly enough), or to
> nicknames/character names in various forums (fora?), which I would
> guess come from either the folktale or Mr. Brust's work.


Like Janos Agyar? Or something like that?

Hmm.  "ördögszerető" appears to be the Hungarian for "demon lover"
> (ördög="devil, fiend, bogy"; szerető="lover, paramour"), which is kind
> of what "Pretty Maid Ibronka" is about.
>
>
> Any Hungarians around are welcome to translate the rest of this, which
> appears to be an entry from a Hungarian folklore dictionary (Magyar
> Néprajzi Lexikon):
>
>   http://www.mek.ro/02100/02115/html/4-280.html
>
>
> In addition, here's the page for taltos:
>
>    http://www.mek.ro/02100/02115/html/5-344.html
>
> And here's the page for garaboncias:
>
>    http://www.mek.ro/02100/02115/html/2-592.html
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