(urth) Ormsby, Michael

[Andrew Bollen]

Could have missed it, but haven't noticed anyone giving the place name 
definition of "Ormsby" courtesy of google: "Village of the Worm/Dragon". 
(The real Ormsby in northern England is apparently more likely to have been 
founded by a Viking named Orm, ie Dragon, apparently a common enough name 
for Vikings.)

"Art Ormsby" then translates to "Art from Dragonville". Griffonford sounds 
pretty much like Dragonville in Mag's little passage in the Room of Lost 
Loves - with only Black Bethold and a couple of others resisting Setr & 
Grengarm. If that's a connection we're supposed to draw, I find it more 
confusing than anything. If Art's surname is Ormsby, then it's probably also 
his father's. I think we know that his mother or some version of her went to 
Griffonford from America, but are we also to suppose that his father (or 
some version of him) went *from* Griffonford *to* America?

You never know with Wolfe whether you're loading too much on to little 
things, or not enough.

Unrelated, but I've also missed any mention of Michael as the commander of 
the host of God in the First Battle and/or the Last Battle. In the second, 
he slays the Great Worm Satan. He's clearly an appropriate patron for Art.