this is amusing

[calimac]

It seems that the professional women's basketball league, experiencing an upsurge in popularity, is starting new teams, and the one here is to be called the Valkyries.

Good name for a women's sports team, I thought, especially one in a game that requires a lot of bounding around; but the result has been a flood of queries to Google as to what "valkyries" might mean.

Oy. Haven't they ever heard this?

Comments

[voidampersand]

The better name for the team would have been the Amazons.

[athenais]

I think it's an excellent name for the team and the logo is so much cooler than almost all the other WNBA team logos. I'm fond of the Minnesota Lynx, though. I look forward to going to those games.

[wild_patience]

I'll bet too many of them aren't sure how to pronounce it, either. (I'll never forget having to repeatedly tell my supervisor at work how to pronounce Hermione when she was reading Harry Potter to her kids. Thank you, Hermione Gingold, whose movies I enjoyed as a teen.)

[sturgeonslawyer]

I'm afraid they're more likely to be familiar with this