Quoting Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...>:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 03:02:05 -0500, Geoff Horswood
> <geoffhorswood@...> wrote:
>
> >BTW,
> >1: Space) Where did you get the name "Charles' Wain" for the Great
> >Bear/Big Dipper/Plough constellation? I'm intrigued.
>
> 1: I said that I have written this off from that book. It clearly said
> "Charles' Wain/Great Bear".
For what's it's worth, the Big Dipper is _karlavagnen_ in Swedish, an archaic
formation meaning the "the waggon of Charles". The Charles in question has been
identified as Charlemagne; I do not know how certain this is.
Andreas