Persons who should be on Chocolate Frog Cards

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" wrote:
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> I agree about Roger Bacon (the doctor mirabilis) and nominate
> Virgil. IIRC many years ago, The Leaky Cauldon created a set of
> Chocolate Frog cards that were all people whose names are known
> to us Muggles. They posted two cards each week, available for
> printing out and hand coloring, and kept them up for only one
> week to have scarcity value.

It was hpgalleries.com, an excellent website which sadly has been 
gone for more than a year.  It had tons and tons of galleries, actor-
biographies, images from the first movie, scans of the covers of 
international editions, word-lists for what various terms from the 
books were in other languages, etc. etc. etc.  I believe the site had 
only one problem: it was too good and too popular to be sustainable 
on a voluntary basis - the more populara site gets, the more 
bandwidth is used, and bandwidth costs money.

>From Norway a good many of the chieftains from pre-Christian times 
would fit the bill.  I believe it was Hårek from Tjøtta who Olav 
Haraldson tried to execute by putting a tube down his mouth and 
forcing an adder through it, but Hårek sang galder (magical songs) 
against it, so it wouldn't enter.  Eventually they forced the snake 
in with a burning candle anyway, and it went down his throat and bit 
a hole out there, killing Hårek.  This was part of the ongoing 
Christanisation of Norway - it tended to be rather bloody at times.

The Ynglinge-sage also shows many of the kings there having some form 
of magical prowess, and mentions Odin and the other Norse gods as 
being originally mighty chieftains and magicians descended from the 
people of Troy.

Best regards
Christian Stubø