Link, Zelda, Ganon. What do their names mean?

Shrukan · July 8, 2007 at 7:24 PM

Quote from Link (on Zelda Universe)

Has anyone ever noticed any relevance of teh character's names in the Zelda series? There are web-sites that can tell you the meanings of names. Lets try a few. Left of the semi-colon is meaning. To teh right of it is it's origin.

Link: Left Hand; German.
So Link's anme means Left hand. Well, he IS left handed, isn't he?

Zelda: Luck; Yiddish. / N/A; German.
Zelda is supposedly also German, but it's meaning is unknown. In Yiddish, (How many of you have heard of that language?) it means Luck or Lucky one,

Ganon/Gannon: Fair-haired;Gaelic.
Fair haired? I don't think so! His natural hair color is blood red?! (Or...is it?)

So, relevant to the games, or not? I'll post more names later. I got my info from 20,000 Baby Names, Meanings and Origins at Baby Names World

Interesting....

TriforceMaster3000 · July 8, 2007 at 7:41 PM

Meh, big deal, I myself have never cared for name meanings, a lot of them are irrelevant.

Happy Mask Salesman · July 9, 2007 at 12:45 AM

I thought that was cool.

Steelia · July 9, 2007 at 8:11 AM

Hmm. I've forgotten the significants of names... That was fairly interesting.
Hehe, fair-haired...

TriforceMaster3000 · July 9, 2007 at 11:30 AM

Gannon is not a real name for Ganon. At all. It was a translation error from the first game. Anyone who believes that is the real name or a name of Ganon at all is wrong. Also, some people say he's only Gannon in LoZ. That's also wrong too, LoZ had a translation error, Nintendo said that themselves. It's Ganon. Just wanted to point that out. There is no such thing as Gannon.

mortuaries · July 9, 2007 at 11:43 AM

nice find

the link one is pretty interesting

anymore for other characters?

Shrukan · July 9, 2007 at 2:01 PM

Quote from TriforceMaster3000

Gannon is not a real name for Ganon. At all. It was a translation error from the first game. Anyone who believes that is the real name or a name of Ganon at all is wrong. Also, some people say he's only Gannon in LoZ. That's also wrong too, LoZ had a translation error, Nintendo said that themselves. It's Ganon. Just wanted to point that out. There is no such thing as Gannon.

Hence level one gannon-banned. Also, Zoras were called Zolas in ALTTP (SNES), but on the GBA one the translation was fixed and became Zoras.

Happy Mask Salesman · July 9, 2007 at 3:47 PM

Amazing how many errors are made in games.

X3 AL3X X3 · July 9, 2007 at 4:54 PM

Intresting I didnt knwo his name was Garion

TriforceMaster3000 · July 9, 2007 at 6:42 PM

Quote from Happy Mask Salesman

Amazing how many errors are made in games.

I am error.

Shrukan · July 9, 2007 at 6:44 PM

Quote from TriforceMaster3000

I am error.

XD! He was supposed to have a name, but dude that is funny as hell. XD

X3 AL3X X3 · July 9, 2007 at 6:48 PM

I don't get it what are y'all talking about?

Shrukan · July 9, 2007 at 6:49 PM

Quote from X3 AL3X X3

I don't get it what are y'all talking about?

Error was a mistake in AOL. He said nothing but "I am ERROR!" and nothing else o.O

X3 AL3X X3 · July 9, 2007 at 6:54 PM

TriforceMaster3000 · July 9, 2007 at 6:54 PM

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