XPost: rec.arts.books.childrens, alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 05:02:14 GMT, hayesstw.spamless@yahoo.com (Steve Hayes)   
   wrote:   
      
   >Searches on Maugrim and mythology and Maugrim and Norse only brought links to   
   >Guy Gabrial Kay's "Fionavar" trilogy. If there is a link between the name   
   >Maugrim and Norse mythology, I haven't found it, but if anyone can find a   
   >reference in the Eddas or something I'd like to hear from them.   
      
   Just another follow-up to this.   
      
   I wrote to the webmaster of the Guy Gavriel Kay web site, and got this reply:   
      
   -- quote --   
      
   Generally speaking, when a character in a GGK novel has the same name as   
   one in another fantasy book, it's because both authors have gone to the   
   original sources and used names, rather than GGK borrowing names from that   
   author. I asked him your question, and he said he remembers being amused   
   to see the name Maugrim when he watched the BBC adaptation of Lewis, but   
   he hadn't had a memory of it beforehand; although he'd read the books they   
   weren't that important to him. He does very much respect Alan Garner's   
   work and said that he did get steered to the Norse 'lios alfar' and 'svart   
   alfar' usage through Garner. He also doesn't remember any specific source   
   for the name Maugrim - sorry we couldn't be of more help.   
      
   -- end quote --   
      
   So, unless someone can come up with a source in Norse (or any other)   
   mythology, it looks as though the name was invented by Lewis, or adapted by   
   him from Tolkien, and borrowed from Lewis, albeit unconsciously, by Kay.   
      
      
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