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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Ymbstocc
Many of you know that prior to my current career in the corporate world, I was a scholar of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) language and literature. In all the years I studied Anglo-Saxon, however, not once did I come across the word ymbstocc. It means "a stump containing a swarm of bees." Fellow Porch player Matt discovered this delightful word a couple of years ago while he was searching for possible names for his Torchlight character. Matt mentioned the word to me, and in due course Ymbstocc became a minor NPC in the Torchlight world, but he never really got his moment to shine. Well, today I had reason to create a surly dwarf D&D character, so of course I named him Ymbstocc. What better name for a surly dwarf than a word meaning a stump full of bees?
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