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[Andrew Gilham]

>it was more like granbreton, tho that still may not be right. but-
>gran=great, breton=britain. guess that was mm's lil joke.

Most of the locations in the Hawkmoon stories are real, e.g. Kamarg = the
Camargue in the south of France, Kanbery = Canterbury.  I've seen a map,
can't remember where, maybe in one of the new Millennium omnibuses?, which
makes it all totally explicit even if European geography is unfamiliar, but
anyway, it was deliberate making the British the villains, just to give it
a twist for his (at the time) mostly British readership.  ('Course, that
was before every Hollywood film made the British the bad guys :)

There are some typical MM jokes too, the one I recall is "Aral Vilsn", some
sort of legendary hero, which is of course Harold Wilson, then prime
minister.

>agreed. maybe mm made this deliberately confusing?

I'd be more inclined to guess he was making it up as he went along, and
only tried to impose that sort of structure later on?

- Andy

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