SODOR ISLAND 3D KNAPFORD TO VICARSTOWN SERIES

Sodor is usually shown as much larger than the Isle of Man. The names of some of the 'historical' characters вЂ“ used in the background but not appearing in the stories вЂ“ were taken from locations on the Isle of Man, such as Sir Crosby Marown ( Crosby is a village in the parish of Marown) and Harold Regaby (Regaby is a tiny hamlet on the parish boundary between Andreas and Bride). Killdane, which comes from 'Keeill-y-Deighan' (Church of the Devil), hills are called Knock and Cronk, while 'Nagh Beurla', means 'I speak no English', a distortion of the Manx. Some of the locations have quasi-Manx names, e.g. ДЄ lot of the place names on Sodor are clearly based on Manx forms, but often the nouns are inverted to match English word order. Manx and Sudric are similar enough to be mutually intelligible. The historical language of Sodor is 'Sudric', a language similar to Manx and, like Manx, is falling out of use. Awdry) Hence Awdry sited Sodor in the Irish Sea, between the Isle of Man and Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria (then in Lancashire). 'Everybody knew that there was an Isle of Man, but we decided to 'discover' another island вЂ“ the Island of Sodor вЂ“ and so give the poor deprived Bishop the other half of his diocese!' (Rev. Thus there is no Island of Sodor rather, the fictional island takes its name from an archipelago.ДЄwdry was intrigued to find that although the Bishop had the title 'Sodor and Man', he had only Man for his diocese. The Sudreys became 'Sodor', which was fossilised in the name of the Diocese, long after it ceased to have any authority over the Scottish Islands. 'Southern Isles' compared to NorГ°reyjar ('The Nordreys' ), or the ' Northern Isles', i.e. This is because the Isle of Man was part of the Kingdom of Mann and the Isles, which included the Hebrides, known in Old Norse as the SuГ°reyjar, (anglicised as 'The Sudreys' ) i.e. The bishop of the Isle of Man is known as Bishop of 'Sodor and Man'. Their abridged notes were published in 1987 in a book entitled The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways.

SODOR ISLAND 3D KNAPFORD TO VICARSTOWN SERIES

By the time they had finished, they knew more about Sodor than would ever be used in the Railway Series stories. Some place names were Sudric equivalents or near-equivalents of those in the real world (for instance, Skarloey was a rough Sudric equivalent of the Welsh Talyllyn: logh (Manx) = llyn (Welsh) = 'lake'). Elsbridge was named after Wilbert's parish of Elsworth. A large island would meet the criteria he required, giving him the isolation from changes to the British railway system while giving him somewhere that people could believe in.Д«etween them, Awdry and his younger brother George worked out Sodor's history, geography, industry and language ('Sudric'). Awdry noted that while there was an Isle of Man, there was no similar Island of Sodor. Inspiration came on a visit to the Isle of Man, which forms the Diocese of Sodor and Man in 1950. Awdry required a setting for his books that would be within Great Britain, Rule but would be sufficiently isolated from the rest of British Railways to allow him to do as he wished with the location. The need for consistency in the locations for The Railway Series necessitated the creation of a suitable location. Awdry, and later used in the Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends television series. It is used as the setting for The Railway Series books by the Rev. Sodor is a fictional island located in the Irish Sea, just off the English mainland near Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria. A map of the Island of Sodor showing the railway system

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