Alas, I know she did. She named him after Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, whom she'd learned about while working in Portugal iirc, and decided the name of a nasty 20th-century guy from Portugal sounded good for a 10th or 11th-century wizard from Britian (it alliterates, and what else do you need, right?). I think if she'd had any other reasoning for the name, she would have added, "And fortunately that whimsical decision works out just fine because of these other neat bits of history, so I kept the name" and all her fans would be in awe of her learning. I mean... even if she was trying to save material for the Scottish Book, she didn't have to give up all the details; there's no reason she couldn't have at least mentioned that there's a reason besides "all bad guy names sound the same to me regardless of geography or time period."
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Date: 2012-06-05 08:00 pm (UTC)