Talk:Lind (Oh My Goddess!)

message: Well it's official. Dark Horse spells the goddess's name as Lind. So does the anime. So does the SEGA Dreamcast game. So does the official artbooks in Japan (thus so does Fujishima, the character's creator). Now, at the expense of beating a dead horse, should we remove that "Rind" from the first paragraph of the article? Spelling is Lind according to all the OFFICIAL sources. To be blunt: Rind is a fandom name. Belldandy is spelled Belldandy... not Verthandi. Lind is spelled Lind... not Rind.
:If on top of the Belldandy page we have the disamb sentence, I see no reason in deleting that disamb here.  Just get rid of all the other Rinds on the page. MythSearchertalk 03:50, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Remove Rind

message: From what I have read in the manga, it should be that all Valkyries have single winged angels and was artificially made that way.  I will check on more sources before I make any edits to the article. MythSearcher 08:58, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Er, it clearly says in the manga that a one-winged angel was an extreme abnormality.  Indeed, it would not make much sense her being known as 'One-Winged Lind' if all Valkyries had one-winged angels.  Only Lind has a one-winged angel, and this is likely linked to the fact she has twin angels (which is also unusual). Elric of Grans 22:22, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I actualy know why but I think thatd be too much of a spoiler. --Cat out 22:52, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem about the angel 

message: Am I the only one who thinks the following line reads wrong:
Lind is a Valkyrie, a member of the battle division and is responsible for fighting in the Market Share Battle between heaven and hell.
It sounds as if they are fighting The Battle of the Market Share (likened to The Battle of the Somme or similar).  I cannot think of how best to reword this, but it is worth bringing to people's attention as a misleading statement. Elric of Grans 05:15, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, that line is incorrect. In the manga (which is canon), the Valkyries were never mentioned as being involved in the 'Market Share Battle' (the battle or contest between the Gods and Demons on who can make more contracts with humans). The Valkyries were simply mentioned to form the combat division of Heaven, the closest analogy of which is the military of an Earth nation. The 'Market Share Battle' as presented in the manga is mediated by 'commercial' goddesses like Belldandy and Peorth and presumably commercial demons like Mara (the commercial here refers to license, it means the goddess can form contracts/grant wishes). While the commercial goddesses and demons will inevitably have conflict during their line of work; any fight is necessarily non-fatal as dicatated by the Doublet Law. The Market Share Battle is implied to be more of jockeying for advantageous positions over the other party (best exemplified by Mara); in this regard the Valkyries have no place in the conflict. I have consequently edited the entry to remove the error. --Peorthmegami 23:36, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleaning Up

message: What's the mythological analog for Lind?
:The presumed analogy for 'Lind' is a giantess from Norse mythology named Rindr/Rind . She is best known for bearing Odin's child Vali, born specifically to avenge the death of Balder. For greater detail you can check out her Wiki entry under the keyword Rindr. During the course of my research on her character, I came upon some entries that say she was sometimes regarded as the primal goddess of the frozen Earth. Thus it might not be a coincidence that Kosuke Fujishima portrayed her as having ice magic. --Peorthmegami 23:58, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  mythological analog?