Dundale and Lanchester
Dec. 5th, 2016 05:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
regshoeOriginally posted here on Tumblr. I'm now rather more certain that this is a genuine Thing and not a continuity error!
I’m not sure whether this is a genuine Thing or a continuity error, because it’s pieced together from various footnotes and not treated as at all significant, but: Thomas Dundale comes to England with John Uskglass in 1110, having been taken captive by fairies fourteen years earlier. Dundale and William of Lanchester are contemporaries (they’re both mentioned as being present at the Henry Barbatus debacle). Lanchester rules Northern England in Uskglass’s absence in 1241, as well as governing ‘for much of the thirteenth century’ while Uskglass is busy doing magic. The gentleman mentions at one point being at a dinner with both Dundale and Lanchester ‘four or five hundred years ago’ — that is, some time in the fourteenth century.
Just how long did these two live?
Tags: jonathan strange and mr norrell, thomas dundale, william of lanchester, jonathan strange & mr norrell, regshoe reads jsmn, more intriguing minor characters, i mean the gentleman could be making things up, i think that's fairly likely, but the other dates are still inconsistent with natural human lifespans, and they come from the narrator and strange, we know lifespan-lengthening magic is a thing because uskglass clearly uses it, so — to a lesser extent — does maria absalom, but most historical magicians including most aureates don't seem to have done
I’m not sure whether this is a genuine Thing or a continuity error, because it’s pieced together from various footnotes and not treated as at all significant, but: Thomas Dundale comes to England with John Uskglass in 1110, having been taken captive by fairies fourteen years earlier. Dundale and William of Lanchester are contemporaries (they’re both mentioned as being present at the Henry Barbatus debacle). Lanchester rules Northern England in Uskglass’s absence in 1241, as well as governing ‘for much of the thirteenth century’ while Uskglass is busy doing magic. The gentleman mentions at one point being at a dinner with both Dundale and Lanchester ‘four or five hundred years ago’ — that is, some time in the fourteenth century.
Just how long did these two live?
Tags: jonathan strange and mr norrell, thomas dundale, william of lanchester, jonathan strange & mr norrell, regshoe reads jsmn, more intriguing minor characters, i mean the gentleman could be making things up, i think that's fairly likely, but the other dates are still inconsistent with natural human lifespans, and they come from the narrator and strange, we know lifespan-lengthening magic is a thing because uskglass clearly uses it, so — to a lesser extent — does maria absalom, but most historical magicians including most aureates don't seem to have done
