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In a certain rather good fantasy novel{*} that I have just finished reading, I am somewhat amused by the name of one character: Seolfor.
Which is the Anglo-Saxon word from which the modern word 'silver' is derived.
Said character is specifically described as having silver hair.
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mizkit/C E Murphy's The Pretender's Crown. Strongly recommended, though do read its predecessor first.
Which is the Anglo-Saxon word from which the modern word 'silver' is derived.
Said character is specifically described as having silver hair.
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Date: 2009-09-24 10:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-24 11:10 am (UTC)What particularly led me to noticing the name's meaning was today's revelation of that cache of gold and silver discovered up in Staffordshire (as mentioned on Kari's LJ).
Ahem: when I last mentioned your mixing of genres, I hadn't anticipated Seolfor's gifts. That's sneaky: it's a time travel alternate history. Except without the time travel, and without actually being an alternate history either. (What does GGK call his The Sarantine Mosaic?)
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Date: 2009-09-24 01:23 pm (UTC)(I donno what GGK calls the Mosaic, but I call it wonderful!)
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Date: 2009-09-24 04:07 pm (UTC)Thanks to both of you, for increasing my good reading in recent months.
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Date: 2009-09-24 04:34 pm (UTC)We now have THREE of
Not to mention a certain Mr. Stross, and Scott Lynch (at least he doesn't have a back-catalogue).
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