Fenris Ulf Aka Maugrim

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Hey, in the older books of Narnia, Maugrim is named Fenris Ulf. Does anyone know why it was changed to Maugrim or who changed it?

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Yeah. It's really weird. I've always known him as Maugrim though. :)
 
I knew him as Fenris Ulf, to begin with, and I like that name much better than Maugrim. It just has a right hand worf ring to it, you know what I mean? Which name do you like better?
 
I don't like the "Ulf" part. Sounds like someone getting punched in the stomach.
 
Specter: Ulf does sound like someone being punched in the stomach! I've always thought that! :lol:

rubixcow: I like Fenris Ulf better too. I think it's because I'm so used to it that it's ground into me, if you take my meaning.
 
I think that in the movies, he was Maugrim. At least in the animated LWW.
 
I'm fairly sure he was maugrim in the bbc movie, but i'm not usre, i'd have to go watch it
 
yes im certain hes maugrim in the bbc movies i just watched them last night. i dont like fenris ulf. at all. 1. because it sounds like a pirates name. 2. because i cant pronounce it. <_<
 
It was/has always been Maugrim in the original UK versions of the book but, (this is all from vague memory so may be wrong) but the publishers had to change it for the US version - not honestly sure why but remember seeing this somewhere - if i rememebr i shall let you know!
 
I think i prefer the name Maugrim, thats what i've been brought up knowing but i find the name Fenris Ulf quite cool as well, though i have to agree the Ulf part doesn't sound to good.

Someone mentioned that the name derived from norse mythology, there is a relatively short explanation of Fenrir from norse mythology bellow if anyone is interested.

Fenrir, more often called Fenris Wolf was the monstrous son of Loki, the Norse god of mishcief. He was the first wolf and the most fierce and huge there has ever been, destined to bring great harm to the norse gods. Because of his fierceness, and insatiable hunger the gods bound him (with much difficulty, and at the loss of the powerful god Tyr's right hand) in the underworld, it is said that he will come again on ragnorak (the worlds end) where he will open his mouth so wide as to touch heaven with the top of his jaws and scrape the ground with the bottom, all the time blowing flames from his mouth and nostrils as he walks along, where he will kill the great god odin but be killed himself by another god as the forces of evil destroy the world and the moon and son are swollowed by two of his great and terrible offspring the last godly defenders will perish and so will end the world.

Sorry rather longer than needed i am just fascinated by history, mythology and legends and religion so i sort of got on a roll there.
 
Sorry for digging this up, but "Ulf" is common name in Scandinavia, meaning "Wolf" - or, in Danish, "Ulv".

The story about the Fenris-wolf is pretty accurate. It is Odin's son Vidar who will kill the wolf.

Anyway, I was just searching for information on the name "Maugrim", when this link came up, and being from Denmark, it was fascinating to learn that Maugrim was called "Fenris" in the early US versions. Never knew that.
 
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