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Re: Blood Stone Castle parsed!
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Wed, 12 Jul 2000 22:50:43 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Jeff Stembel writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Jeff Johnston writes:
> > Jason Maxwell wrote:
> > I think 'Caer' was a Gaelic word for castle. I can't find any proof for that
> > beyond the great number of castles named Caer <something>, though.
I was guessing Gaelic too but it appears to be Welsh.
> I believe it can also mean "town", or "village", as well. Perhaps it means
> "settlement"? I've been meaning to look it up one of these days. :D
Found in at http://www.cs.brown.edu/fun/welsh/LexiconForms.html. It's framed
so you need to run the search yourself but it comes up as "wall;castle;town."
Everyone seems to have the right idea.
> > (In addition, two of my favorite series of children's books had 'Caer'
> > castles in them. The Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander had several
> > Caers, and C.S. Lewis' Narnia chronicles had Cair Paravel.)
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> The Prydain Chronicles are one of my favorites, too! I need to purchase • copies
> of that series... :)
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> Jeff
The Science Fiction Book Club has (had?) a single volume of the Prydain
stories. I think there were five in that volume - is that all of them?
John
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| (...) Er...mostly. The main series had five books (_The Book of Three_, _The Black Cauldron_, _The Castle of Llyr_, _Taran Wanderer_, _The High King_.) However, there are other books & short stories set in Prydain. The only one I remember offhand (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) I believe it can also mean "town", or "village", as well. Perhaps it means "settlement"? I've been meaning to look it up one of these days. :D (...) The Prydain Chronicles are one of my favorites, too! I need to purchase copies of that (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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