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Oppel moved to England and wrote a number of books during that period, gleaning several ideas while working at typing students' papers. From 1995 to 1996, Oppel worked as an editor at Quill & Quire, the trade magazine of the Canadian publishing industry. He wrote four books for the Silverwing novel series: Silverwing, Sunwing, Firewing and ...
[410] [411] Possibly a Geatish dynastic name that was used by the Gothic Amals, or the name could be created from "wolf" independently in Middle High German epic. [412] They are by some authors considered a clan in northern Germany. [413] [410] In Middle High German epic and the Þiðreks saga, used for the relatives of Hildebrand. [412]
The Onomastics of the Gothic language (Gothic personal names) are an important source not only for the history of the Goths themselves, but for Germanic onomastics in general and the linguistic and cultural history of the Germanic Heroic Age of c. the 3rd to 6th centuries. Gothic names can be found in Roman records as far back as the 4th ...
Parents of Girls Are Going Cute. The idea that "you're not naming a baby, you're naming an adult" is holding less sway with today's parents. "For girls, 'Baby Names, Literally,' are one of the ...
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Silverwing is a children's novel written by Kenneth Oppel, first published in 1997 by HarperCollins. It tells the story of the Silverwings, a colony of silver-haired bats . Silverwing is the first installment of the Silverwing series, though it is chronologically the second novel in the sequence after Darkwing .
The names of only a few of the queens of the Visigoths are known. As the Gothic monarchy was elective, all queens were such only as consorts of their husbands. In his Chronicon John of Biclarum styles Goisuintha "queen" (regina) under the years 579 and 589.
The name of Rappaccini's daughter is a reference to Dante's Beatrice, allegory of Divine Wisdom and Divine Grace: the name means "she who brings bliss", "she who makes blessed". Dante meets her in the Garden of Eden, while a hundred angels scatter flowers above and around her ( Purgatory Canto XXX:19–39 ).