Chapter 14 | Page 7
on December 20, 2018
at 12:00 am
I think one day I will do a lil side comic about why it’s “Carbus” and not “Coal.”
Thistil Mistil Kistil
by Sarah Schanze
Velkommen!
Thistil Mistil Kistil is a comic about vikings, Norse gods, and their adventures together (or against each other). Updates are on Thor’s Day.
This is still his “nickname” isn’t it? You mentioned earlier that he had another name to go with Torvaldson but he didn’t use it. Love to know what it is….
It IS a nickname! His first name will be revealed fairly soon I think, actually.
Coal is better at swordsmanship than penmanship
(I would be very interested in a comic about Carbus, just spent a little while searching for it on google and the oed and med, but no result. Intriguing…)
I think the Latin for Coal is Carb and “us” is a masculine ending?
I want to know how he got the nickname!
I want to do a lil quick strip explaining it, I had my classicist friend tell me how to turn Coal into a Latin name and it was interesting.
I’m not sure this is Coal doing the writing – after all, he was sent away with Ingolf and Harald. I think this is Ibrahim teaching *Arne* these new-fangled Latin letters which are all the rage in Iberia.
Darn those Romans.