I'm still holding to Cor and Corin being born in the last days of the Winter, and to the first visits of the Pevensies to Archenland not happening for about a a year or fifteen months after that. Re: the Centaur business... my take on that is that Cor is talking about something that he knows only from hearsay, and we already know that he is not a very exact listener, by his shakiness about "embezzled", and of course by the "or something" in this speech. He's trying to take in a lot of info, all at once, too, in a very jumbled and high-emotion time.
My head-canon is that the Centaur was not in fact IN Narnia, but a Narnian Centaur who had found refuge with an Archenlandish hermit (on the Western March? If the one in the south was the only one, they wouldn't have needed to differentiate him by saying "of the Southern March") since the hermits fill a social role somewhat analogous to the Centaurs, in the seer aspect.
The only Centaurs that Cor in HHB has heard of, though, are the Narnian Centaurs in the battle, so he makes the understandable slip (for a boy who doesn't know much about these Northern countries, who's trying to grasp a heck of a lot all at once) that the encounter with a Narnian Centaur took place IN Narnia.
:)
What was Lune's younger brother's name? Was this plot after the Disappearance?
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Date: 2013-11-28 07:03 am (UTC)I'm still holding to Cor and Corin being born in the last days of the Winter, and to the first visits of the Pevensies to Archenland not happening for about a a year or fifteen months after that.
Re: the Centaur business... my take on that is that Cor is talking about something that he knows only from hearsay, and we already know that he is not a very exact listener, by his shakiness about "embezzled", and of course by the "or something" in this speech. He's trying to take in a lot of info, all at once, too, in a very jumbled and high-emotion time.
My head-canon is that the Centaur was not in fact IN Narnia, but a Narnian Centaur who had found refuge with an Archenlandish hermit (on the Western March? If the one in the south was the only one, they wouldn't have needed to differentiate him by saying "of the Southern March") since the hermits fill a social role somewhat analogous to the Centaurs, in the seer aspect.
The only Centaurs that Cor in HHB has heard of, though, are the Narnian Centaurs in the battle, so he makes the understandable slip (for a boy who doesn't know much about these Northern countries, who's trying to grasp a heck of a lot all at once) that the encounter with a Narnian Centaur took place IN Narnia.
:)
What was Lune's younger brother's name? Was this plot after the Disappearance?