Name
Edmund (from Anglo-Saxon, Eadmund, derived from words meaning wealth and protection) is a male given name.
Pevensie takes perhaps after Pevensey, on the southeast coast of England, which is the site of a medieval castle that figures importantly in British history at several points—primarily, indeed, as the site where Duke William of Normandy (William the Conqueror) arrived in England during the Norman invasion in 1066; He would go on to become the King of the English after his decisive 1066 victory over Harold II Godwinson in the Battle of Hastings. In Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill (1907) at least one of the characters refers to Pevensey as "England's Gate", which the celebrated wardrobe in Lewis's books quite literally becomes. The surname "Pevensie" does not actually appear in the Chronicles until the third published book, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
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“Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore than name. Are they all alike. I think so.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“What is it? a learned man
Could give it a clumsy name.
Let him name it who can,
The beauty would be the same.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)