Saki Akenaga First Year Seminar B 51, British Childrenʼs Fantasy Fiction

The Northern Lights Chapters 14 and 15 1. Bolvagar (Experimental Station)

【Bolvangar】 “Hence the name Bolvangar: the fields of evil” ‒ Kaisa in Chapter 11

In Old Norse (Old Scandinavian) … bol: evil vangar: field, meadow

【Experimental Station】 “They call it The Station” ‒ Kaisa in Chapter 11 “Itʼs called the Experimental Station” ‒ Sister Clara in Chapter 14 Experimental Stations in our World Usually used as a place to experiment plants for breeding etc. →In the book: experiment intercision using children

2. Samoyed People “Samoyed peoples. Hunters” ‒ The man in the sledge in Chapter 14 “Asiatic face”, “sledge driver”, “wolverine hood” ‒ Chapter 14

【Samoyedic people (Samodeic people)】

- Lives in Northern Russia, Asian (Mongoloid) - Relies on reindeers and sleighs to live - Hunt to gain food - Currently, “Samoyed” is discriminatory (“self-eater” in Russian) →”Nenets” 3. Daemon- Human Relationship - Daemonsʼ View

“ghost-like forms of cats, or birds, or rats, or other creatures, each bewildered and frightened and as pale as smoke.” “they missed the heavy solid warmth of their humansʼ bodies…/ longed to press themselves against a heartbeat.” ‒ from Chapter 15

→Not only humans, but daemons are also affected when they are separated (cannot speak, touch other humans)

↓ Resembles “Spirit” or “Soul”

【Spirit】 - Spirit (Soul): separate from the human body, but they exist inside humansʼ bodies when they are

alive ‒ from the Cambridge Dictionary →what makes human bodies act mentally (Tony was almost mentally dead) →remain after the human dies (Tonyʼs daemon was still alive when Lyra found the cage)