Farmer Giles of Ham - obviously Catholic? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Anguirel · 11-24-2006, 02:59 PM

More later on this fascinating topic, but for now, I shall content myself with revealing Pope, later Saint, Hilarius

Perhaps the most amusing of all Popes...were I elected I would struggle to resist becoming Hilarius II...

Perhaps more interestingly, there was a Latin poet of the same name, active in 1125 I beleive, who was thought to have been an Englishman due to one poem entitled "An English Boy", or something of the sort.

More generally, Hilarius and Felix both indicate levity and set the tale's light tone.

11-24-2006, 02:59 PM	#7
Anguirel Byronic Brand Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: The 1590s Posts: 2,778	More later on this fascinating topic, but for now, I shall content myself with revealing Pope, later Saint, Hilarius Perhaps the most amusing of all Popes...were I elected I would struggle to resist becoming Hilarius II... Perhaps more interestingly, there was a Latin poet of the same name, active in 1125 I beleive, who was thought to have been an Englishman due to one poem entitled "An English Boy", or something of the sort. More generally, Hilarius and Felix both indicate levity and set the tale's light tone. __________________ Among the friendly dead, being bad at games did not seem to matter -Il Lupo Fenriso