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Personal first names (as opposed to nicknames or bynames) really imply very little about someone's backstory. The name "Philip" doesn't imply the guy named so loves horses, even if that is what the name means etymologically. The queen's name could be mere accident.


* RagsToRoyalty: As the queen's name means "foreign slave", it's implied she was a free woman overseas before being captured and married to the king.
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Where The Hell Is Springfield is when the real world location of a fictional setting is *deliberately* ambiguous. It's not just "an unknown place name".


* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: There's some debate over exactly who the Geats are and where they live -- the most popular explanation is that they're from modern-day Götaland in Sweden, but some academics claim that they're Gutes from Gotland or Jutes from Jutland.

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