Piotr wrote
> If there are any fans of C.S. Lewis out there, here's a quizz:
>
> Where does the OE word for 'giant', eoten (Middle English eten, et
(t)in) occur in the Chronicles of Narnia?
>
> Quite possibly it was Lewis's Anglo-Saxonist friend J.R.R. Tolkien
who
> recommended the word to him. At any rate, Tolkien himself made use
of another nice OE term for 'giant', ent, in his own fiction.
I cut my reading teeth on the Narnia Cronicles. It comes from "The
Silver Chair", the 6th in the 7 book series. It refers to
Ettinsmore, which combines two OE words for the Giant's kingdom to
the north of Narnia. Narnia, by the way was the name for a small
town in the Roman Empire just north of Rome, and Aslan, the divine
lion, comes from the Turkish word "Golden". Lots of interesting
etymological associations throughout it. A whole subject in itself.
Another one, what about Tashbaan?
Regards
John