Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins, born Aud (formerly Anyanka, the "patron saint of scorned women"), is a fictional character on the cult television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The character is portrayed by Emma Caulfield.
Anya was born as Aud in the year 860 in Sjornjost, a small Scandinavian village. Aud grew up raising rabbits and became an outsider in her community, who dismissed her as "odd", because of her strange mannerisms and out-of...
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Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins, born Aud (formerly Anyanka, the "patron saint of scorned women"), is a fictional character on the cult television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The character is portrayed by Emma Caulfield.
Anya was born as Aud in the year 860 in Sjornjost, a small Scandinavian village. Aud grew up raising rabbits and became an outsider in her community, who dismissed her as "odd", because of her strange mannerisms and out-of-the-ordinary ideas (such as not wanting to sell the rabbits she had been breeding, but instead give them to people in the village as gifts.) In 880, at the age of 20, she fell in love with the boorish Olaf, a Viking warrior who enjoyed hunting trolls and drinking at the bar. One night, Olaf drunkenly slept with a barmaid named Rannveig, and a furious Aud turned him into a troll. Olaf was forced to flee from fellow villagers, who did not believe his story. Aud had previously used magic against her past lovers as well, casting spells to create...
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