nac mac feegle造句

• While Terry Pratchett's first " Discworld " book for children, " The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents " had swearing translated to rat language, in this book it is in the dialect of the Nac Mac Feegle which is taken from Scots and Scottish Gaelic.
• It is home not only to Elves but also to various other fairytale creatures such as grimhounds, unicorns and Jenny Greenteeth, though the Nac Mac Feegle, themselves former residents of the place, claim that nothing in Fairyland is actually native to it, unless it was made by the Queen herself.
• The Nac Mac Feegle clans that have appeared in the books are the Long Lake Clan, who settled in Lancre in " Carpe Jugulum " ( but were not named until " A Hat Full of Sky " ) and the Chalk Hill Clan who feature in the Tiffany Aching books.
• The fearlessness of Nac Mac Feegle warriors in combat is derived from their religious belief that they cannot be killed, because they are already dead; they believe that they are in the afterlife, and that any Feegle who is killed has simply been reincarnated into the world where they have already lived before.
• They are warriors, hunters and foragers; Nac Mac Feegle foraging consists of taking anything that is not nailed down ( if it is nailed down, they will prise it loose and take the nails as well ), up to and including quite large cows if enough foragers can be gathered to do the lifting.
• The story is the first since " Carpe Jugulum " to feature the Nac Mac Feegle, or Pictsies, six inch tall blue-painted red-haired fairies, who, according to their own history, rebelled against the wicked rule of the ( or possibly " a " ) Queen of the Fairies, and were therefore exiled from swords glow blue.
• As the Big Man of the Chalk Hill Gang, Rob Anybody, proudly states : " We've been robbin'an'runnin'aroound on all kinds o'worrlds for a lang time . " The Nac Mac Feegle take pride in being able to get into, or out of, anywhere ( although getting out of pubs presents something of a difficulty ).
• Nac Mac Feegle tend to have human names, usually abbreviated and with some sort of modifier ( Rob Anybody, Daft Wullie, Big Aggie, Wee Jock ), though their respect for inheriting and repeating famous names limits them a bit ( No'- as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock Jock ).
• In " Wintersmith ", Roland was reluctantly recruited by the Nac Mac Feegle to perform the role of the mythic Hero in the Dance of the Seasons, to put right the damage Tiffany had caused by interfering in the dance and the proper roles of the white horse that is carved into the Chalk; Tiffany uses the necklace as a symbol to draw on the power of her homeland in times of crisis.
• The "'Nac Mac Feegle "'( also sometimes known as Pictsies, Wee Free Men, and the Little Men ) are a type of fairy folk that appear in Terry Pratchett's " Discworld " novels " Carpe Jugulum ", " The Wee Free Men ", " A Hat Full of Sky ", " Wintersmith ", " I Shall Wear Midnight ", " Victorian concept of mystical and refined fairies, and hark back to the fairies of folklore, who were generally seen as occasionally helpful thieves and pests.