this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2024
705 points (98.6% liked)

Lord of the memes

8261 readers
477 users here now

The Lord of the rings memes communitiy on Lemmy. Share memes about Lord of the rings and be respectful.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In France I know a Maia, in Sweden a Maja!

[โ€“] Dasus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Oh I haven't heard of French Maias, but I did know Sweden has Maja, that's probably where it came to Finnish from, I'd wager. Yeah, Wikipedia says the Scandic equivalent is Maja, yeah. It's a deviation on "Mary" as I suspected from Mary Poppins.