: But as you pointed out, Provincial names are extremely
: diverse. There are names of popes and heroes from all
: over Europe and the Mediterranean, good old English
: names, even backwoods American names. Not to mention
: uniques like Alric, Rurik and Kildaer. It seems a
: little premature to declare that "Andir"
: cannot be a Provincial name. Especially when we
: haven't seen it used by the Northmen either.
Alric, Rurik, and Kildaer aren't unique, original names either. Alric is probably derived from the Old German "alaric" which means more or less "lord", or more accurately "ruler of all". Rurik was the name of Rurik the Russ, whose exact role I don't recall except he had something to do with early Russian history. (I believe there were some other Myth named related to Rurik, but that was three years ago I heard about him so I don't recall). I seem to recall there being some historical meaning to Kildaer - it's obviously of at least partial Gaelic/Celtic descent, which Bungie loves - but I don't recall what it was either.
: So a town guard is a very reasonable supposition for a
: Zerk village; they probably need one, and even if they
: don't they'd have one for the principle of the thing.
" ... returning home after the defeat of the Fallen Lords, the men of the North found their farms and villages virtually untouched by the Dark... a testament to the mettle of their homeguard."
-Berserk Flavor Text, Myth II
This is what the Encyclopedia is for, people.
: *cough* you just equated people who don't believe that
: Andir was a Northman with...witch hunters?
: The Holy Grail was a work of fiction, by the way. :-) No
: one actually died in it (except Graham Chapman, but
: that was hushed up and his string-operated corpse went
: on to act in several more movies, to great critical
: acclaim.)
I'm not dead!
