We know the duchy is a location within the Southern Kingdom (The Face in the Frost, ix). One may assume the inhabitants of this community (or their ancestors) may have come up with the name of their village from some geographic-or-historically significant event or landmark, such as:
- Irontree brings to mind some vertical pole – kind of like an artificial Christmas tree. It is another name for the Persian Ironwood, a small slow-growing deciduous tree with a low domed shape that is native to Iran.
- Dragonrock may refer to a rock formation in the shape of a dragon, or serpent or wyrm, one of such which stands in Dragonby, a small village north of Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire, England.
Stone-circles.org.uk says the rock is a natural rock formation caused by a limestone spring but associated with some local legends, believing it to be:
"...the body of a dragon that was turned to stone by a wizard. Another story claims that it is the top of a church that sank into the earth with the congregation still inside and that once a year the ghostly bells can still be heard ringing."
The village's name was changed from the original name of Conesby Cliff in honor of the dragon.
Are there any other dragon rocks you're aware of?
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Ironwood which sounds pretty similar to iron tree is the common name for a species of birch that is native to North America
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