Message: "Howell" - Behind the Name

[Facts] Howell

by Shiho

11/17/2006, 4:21 PM

Howell Jenkins, the real name of Wizard Howl in Diana Wynne Jones's "Howl's Moving Castle."

- Eilicea

11/19/2006, 12:44 PM

Hey, I read that book too! "Howell" is an anglicized form of "Hywel," which means "eminent," and, is, of course, a Welsh name.

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