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Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

1998

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C.S. Lewis And The Toponym Narnia, William Sayers Jan 1998

C.S. Lewis And The Toponym Narnia, William Sayers

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Argues a possible derivation of the name Narnia from Old and Middle Irish sources; concludes Lewis was not likely aware of these Irish names, but Narnia was influenced by Lewis’s experience of Ireland.