Sometimes the name of a place becomes the word for an event which occurred at that place, e.g., Hiroshima etc. "He was at Cable Street" means "He was at the Battle of Cable Street in 1936." When a lorry driver tells Flandry and Kit:
"'I fought at Burnt Hill...'"
-"Hunters of the Sky Cave," IX, p. 219
- was that hill already called "Burnt" or has it newly acquired that name because of the events of the battle in which the driver fought?
See also Battle Sun.
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Kaor, Paul!
To me, the Bryce I thought of was James Bryce, a well known 19th/20th centuries scholar, historian, diplomat, and Liberal Party politician. He wrote well regarded books on a wide range of topics, from the Holy Roman Empire to analysis of the US.
I suspect "Burnt Hill" was a new name on Vixen, created because of the battle there between the human colonists and the invading Ardazirho.
Ad astra! Sean
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