Comments on: An Éirinn Poll

By: aratyr

aratyr — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:08:08 +0000

You sold a HUNTER?!? Brilliant!

And thanks for your correct email, Ava. The one that bounced was a frangipani-type thing…

slán, — r

By: avasuri

avasuri — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:46:37 +0000

http://booksbyrotten.blogspot.com/2008/09/hunter-of-light.html

I wrote about your book on my blog, not too skilfully I fear, but atleast I managed to sell a book !

By: avasuri

avasuri — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:43:00 +0000

I read the book and loved it as Hunter of the Light. So I feel you should keep it.

The Necromancer will do. I loved everything in the book and wouldnt want anything changed.

By: Naj

Naj — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:12:04 +0000

1) The Hunter of Éirinn

2) The Necromancer

I fully support the least amount of change to the original text.

By: blairza

blairza — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:31:41 +0000

I also prefer Hunter of Eirinn, to Hunter of the Light. As to the Necromancer V. Ghost I am not happy with either. Necromancy appears in European literature in the 14 century and there is some indication that it is in fact an inkhorn term based on a misreading and or misspelling of another word.
Most English dictionaries cite the Greek Necros(death) but the word first appears in English as Nigromancy from the latin for Black Works and indeed the Italians called it a Negromante while the French say Necromanien.
Some define it specifically as one who invokes the dead but most citations use it as a blanket term for Sorcery. It is out of place and more importantly out of time. I don’t like ghost because all the other offices describe some action (Dancer, Conjuror but hey that’s just me.

By: DaveSmeds

DaveSmeds — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:19:01 +0000

1) I have always believed the original title should be kept. HarperPrism chickened out in the direction of conformity and blandness. Whenever I refer to the book, I call it The Hunter of Éirinn, not Hunter of the Light. Now, if we were talking about that weird byline…

2) Necromancer a highly Latinized epithet? Don’t follow you. Sure, the root may be from Latin, but so is the root of Deceiver and Conjuror. Now, if in place of Oak-Seer you had used something like Oak-Haruspex, I would have said, hey, get out of town, your fantasy realm’s not based on ancient Etruria. Necromancer is a term that has crossed cultures and versions of it appear in many languages. Keep it. If it still seems out of place, you already covered it. The guy was from Alba, not Éirinn.