From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 4/18/22 01:24, Erland Sommarskog wrote:   
   > Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   >>     D2. By what collective name are the seven brightest stars of   
   >>         the constellation Ursa Major known?   
   >   
   > We call it Karlavagnen in Swedish. I'm not going try to translate it.   
      
   The equivalent in English is Charles' Wain or Charles' Wagon (wain is an   
   old term for wagon). Could also be Carl's Wain. Those are old names that   
   go back much further than the Big Dipper or Plough (British name for   
   it). According to Wikipedia, Carl/Charles is a modification of "churl",   
   an old Germanic word for man. Thus it was the man's wagon, while the   
   Little Dipper is the women's wagon.   
      
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