Every time I see her name I can't help but think, "Palin, daughter of Fundin."

[goreism]

That is all.

Comments

[yechezkiel]

what is that in reference to?

[fpb]

So there is someone who has not yet read the most widely read work of English literature in the twentieth century.

[yechezkiel]

I'm excessively literal, and it wasn't until your clue here that I realized I needed to switch a letter and daughter to son and mispronounce "Palin" to make it rhyme with "Balin".

[goreism]

I've been reading about her occasionally for a few months without knowing how her name was pronounced, so the visual similarities spring out at me a lot more than the auditory ones.

[yechezkiel]

I'm not sure why I knew how to pronounce it; maybe it comes from having a lot of people in my church with relatives in AK.