Wizard Questions

thalassocrat at nym.hush.com · 08 Apr 2007, 11:10 · from 2007-April.txt.gz

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From: thalassocrat at nym.hush.com (thalassocrat at nym.hush.com)
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 21:10:53 +1000
Subject: (urth) Wizard Questions
Message-ID: <20070408111053.E681022823 at mailserver9.hushmail.com>

On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 09:49:43 +1000 Batrinque at aol.com wrote:
>Having just finished reading "The Wizard", a myriad of questions 
>present  
>themselves.  A couple are:
> 
>Is "Ormsby" an alternative form of "Pendragon"?

I'm in a minority, I think, in believing it isn't. The -by suffix 
usually means something like "village" or "town", and I take the 
name to mean "from the village of the dragon". But what *that* 
means, in story terms, I'm still trying to work out ...

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