OBSCURE SAINTS - St Kevin
MS Royal 13 B VIII , Gerald of Wales' Topographia Hiberniae, England, c.1196-c.1223 The website TV Tropes is one which, like Wikipedia, is easy to venture into, and then find yourself going down a metaphorical rabbit hole. One of its features is that each trope often has a name drawn from one of the works which has used it . One trope is Aerith and Bob – the usage of very common-sounding names amongst more fantastical ones – which creates a sense of dissonance. Even when justified by the story line (such as a character from the 20 th century being catapulted into a pseudo-medieval fantasy world) if creates a certain degree of dissonance. It is worth noting that the definition excludes those cases where this is deliberate or a translation convention in the manner of Tolkien's use of different historical languages for different culture. When reading down a list of medieval saints the appearance of Saint Kevin might produce the same eff...