Thursday 29 October 2020

More About Names

Orion Shall Rise, PROLOGUE and CHAPTERs ONE and TWO.

We notice that a Northwest Union man is called "Launy Birken," not "Launy sunna -." Thus, the Mericans have lost the patronymics and regained surnames if indeed they did lose them in this slightly different version of the Maurai History.

The Aerogens Coordinator in Kemper is called "Talence Donal Ferlay." Talence is one of the Thirty Clans. Donal is a personal name. Ferlay is a surname. Thus, Donal's son is Talence Iern Ferlay and their kinsmen include Talence Jovain Aurillac.

Mael the Red is a pysan but also the bailli of his district and thus knows the Coordinator. Iern's mother, Catan, is Mael's youngest daughter.

(We would have to understand all this if we were there.)

Later: Belay that. Reading further, I learn that the Mericans, who were civilized by the Maurai, are to the south of the Norries.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

You beat me to correcting you about how Mericans like Lorn sunna Browen came from what I think were the old US states of Colorado and New Mexico, a long way from the Northwest Union!

Ad astra! Sean