Narnian headcanon week, 6

[heliopausa]

Oh my!  running late(ish).  But all sorts of things have been happening today (all good).

Sixth in the series:

 

King Lune was once Prince Lewin – he had an older brother, the heir apparent, Prince Lew, who was lost at sea.  In the Archenlandish way, this tragedy (this particular kind, of a complete and mysterious disappearance) was not referred to again, after one year's full mourning. 
In the same way, the loss of Prince Cor was not mentioned after the end of the mourning period; hence Corin himself had never heard of his brother, nor had the younger members of Lune's court, nor the Narnians (who had been still caught in Jadis's Winter when it happened).  For this reason, Lucy and Edmund and Corin don't any of them, on seeing the brothers together, draw the conclusion which would have been obvious, had they known the story. 

“Why, so he is your double,” exclaimed Queen Lucy. “As like as two twins. This is a marvelous thing.”

When Lune speaks to his two sons about kingship, he is doing so remembering, and even repeating, partly, the same words used by his own father to him, the bitter night they accepted that Prince Lew was lost forever.  (Hence, by the way, his use in this passage of the archaic forms he does not usually adopt.)

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[heliopausa]

Thank you! :)

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?