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I Ambrose
II Aeled
III Charlotte
IV Radgar
V Geste
VI Wasp
VII Yorick
VIII Fyrlaf
IX Aeleding
X Aftermath

Epilogue

LORD OF THE FIRE LANDS
 Notes on Baelish

An archaic form of Chivian, Baelish is
written much as English was written a thousand
years ago. The alphabet contains twenty-four
letters. Every letter is pronounced, even when this seems
impossible, as in cniht or hlytm.
j, k, q, x, z were not then in use.
Three letters have since been abandoned: eth (`ed,
`ed) and thorn (@th, @th) are both pronounced
like the English th, while the ligature Ae is
a separate vowel sounded between a and e (roughly
a as in "bade," oe as in "bad," e as in
"bed").
c: before e or i, c is pronounced like our
ch (cild was "child," after s pronounced like our
sh (scip was "ship"); otherwise, c was
pronounced k (Catter was "Kater").
g: is tricky! It could be hard
(groeggos would sound very close to "gray
goose"), but it could sound like j, as in hengest
("stallion"); thus hengestmann was a stable
hand and gave us "henchman." If a lord arrived with
his stallion men, look out!
The suffix coming (meaning "son of" or
"descendant of") was probably sounded like the
same letters in our word "finger," so Radgar
Aeleding would be "Rad-gar Also-ed-ing-go."
However g before e was usually sounded as y as in
our "sign" or "thegn." Gea! survives as
"Yea!"
(ge was a common and meaningless prefix attached
to many words such as refa in scir-gerefa. As
"shire-reeve," this metamorphosed into modern
"sheriff.")
Some of the place names should now make a sort of