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Igenlode Wordsmith ([personal profile] igenlode) wrote2019-11-01 03:28 pm
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List of names used, Part II

And here as a placeholder is the list of names used in the first two-thirds of the Swedish story, excluding the final third which is currently drying out under a heavy weight after having replacement endpapers glued in :-p

Full list of names in the Swedish story (unless I introduce any more OCs in the final chapters!)



In Sweden:

Asenstad - town on the way to Torkelby
Torkelby - small town where Mme Valerius lived before she was married
Sunneberg - nearest town to Torkelby

Peterssen - old provision-merchant in Torkelby who rents house to Mme Valerius (younger brother of Elsa Peterssen)
Greta - mongol girl, maidservant at the house
Oskar Valerius - 'the Professor', Mme Valerius's dead husband
Sven - Peterssen's grandson, who gives Christine a lift
Johanna - gossipy blacksmith's wife
Stefan - ex-sailor from Lübeck who serves as guide to travellers

Kulla - white Swedish mountain cow
Frökenstärnja - red and white calf with a white star on her face


At the Hôtel de Chagny:

Jacques - de Chagny footman
rue d'Alerie - lodgings of Jacques' wife and children
Anatole - Philippe's valet
Gilles - young man Raoul's own age who has served him since he was fifteen
Jeannot - slow-witted stable-hand who fails to recognise Raoul on his return


Twenty years ago in Nice:

Paola di Verese - Philippe's first love
il Conte di Verese - her father, a Piedmontese nobleman
Quai des Tilleuls - the lovers' rendezvous


On the "Requin":

Captain Girardeau - commanding officer
Massilié - grey-haired second in command
Valéry Lancard - fellow-lieutenant with whom Raoul has to share a cabin
Laporte - engineering artificer whose arm is scalded in the wreck
Timichon - man who dies of exposure after the wreck
Perret - big fair-haired Norman, a fisherman's son
Durocq - short, dark and superstitious, complainer and trouble-maker
Sancierre - gangly boy, youngest of the survivors
Peythieu - shorter and broader of the two inseparable Auvergnats
Gavrillac - his taller and more timid follower
Le Maistre, dit Reux - Jerseyman of piratical appearance
Boudon - bull-necked, broken-nosed sailor who looks like a boxer


In the Arctic:

Gervais de Sessignes, Marquis d'Artois - leader of shipwrecked expedition
Professor Lieventhal, German geologist
Île Bettina/Pointe Sainte-Emilie/Herzogin-Luise-Land/Мыс Бесплодный - Arctic island on which they establish their camp
"Résurgence" - home-made yawl constructed out of the two lifeboats of the "Requin"
Dr Cirillo - Neapolitan biologist and medical doctor, very attached to his pipe
Captain Karlsen - Norwegian commander of the sealing vessel which picks up the rescue mission


In Norway:

Alvestad - small coastal community at the end of a fjord
Olaf Skeie - man in a green waistcoat in whose house Christine is being nursed
Fru Skeie - his wife, who disapproves of Christine and Raoul's indecorous behaviour


In Paris:

Gilberte Lancard - one of Valéry Lancard's sisters, who teaches art at a girls' school
Bernard Tempuy - eminent scientist in the procession
Professor Lieventhal - German geologist in the procession


At Chagny:

Bajet - major-domo at the château
Valentine, Comtesse de Saint-Mathurin - one of Raoul's elder sisters
Comte Raymond de Saint-Mathurin - cousin to Valentine's son
Simone, Baronne de Voscelles - Raoul's other, shorter sister
Père Duchesne - local priest