name a faerie pub!

[swan_tower]

This one especially goes out to all the Brits, who are more familiar than your average American with the verbal genre known as the Pub Name.

There is a tavern of sorts in the Onyx Hall. I need a good name for it. Right now it's the White Stag because of the folkloric connections, but really, that's far too clean and ordinary-sounding. (It was going to be the Ash and Thorn, but that's been co-opted for something else.) So: suggest to me suitable faerie pub names. If I end up picking yours, I'll send you a signed copy of In Ashes Lie.

Comments

[tybalt-quin.livejournal.com]

The Green Man is always a classic.

[dungeonwriter.livejournal.com]

Dullahan's Hair

The Green Knight

Medusa's Mirror

Drink and Drow

The Fire Bird

The Golden Gwyglli

[hobbit-sffworld.livejournal.com]

How about:

The Dew Drop Inn (pun on the phrase 'Do Drop in' but sounds rather romantically faerie;

The Silver Bough would be an obvious one: According to good ol' Wikipedia, 'the Silver Bough... allowed a living mortal to enter and withdraw from the Otherworld. According to legend, the Faery Queen sometimes offered the branch to worthy mortals, granting them safe passage and food during their stay.'

Jack in the Green: a name for Robin Hood; see also the Goodfellow Arms;

The Rowan and Raven

Faerie and Firkin

The Knight Errant

[jenstclair.livejournal.com]

Well, what about the Red Stag?

[sacredchao23.livejournal.com]

Herne's Arms

[renesears.livejournal.com]

the Branch and Tree

the Black Stone

the Mourning Dove

the Green Sward

[gollumgollum.livejournal.com]

I can probably get you a dozen readers if you name it the Yellow Griffin.

[janni.livejournal.com]

The Winter Oak

[clodfobble.livejournal.com]

The Tithe-pig's Tail

[kathleenfoucart.livejournal.com]

The Blue Hag

Spriggans & Sprites

[anghara.livejournal.com]

Puck's Place

The Black Cauldron

Crossroads Inn

[kernezelda]

Argent Hart

Horn and Heath

Hart & Hound

[aswego.livejournal.com]

Onyx... the Black Grout. ;)

[intertext.livejournal.com]

The Old Straight Track

The Hollow Hills

The Oak and Ash

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

The Dancing Toadstool, (fairy rings and all)

The Apple and the Fortress (Emain Ablach from which Avalon springs, meaning Fortress of Apples)

The Will-o'-the-wisp

The Blazing Salamander

The Raths and Pass (Raths being fairy forts, the pass being the fairy path that's supposed to go between_

The Coffin Candle

[malsperanza.livejournal.com]

I think the best pub names are a little weird, with references no one can quite grasp, or a lost story in them (like The Case Is Altered or the Elephant and Castle). So here are a few of that sort:

The Plough and Stars (i.e., the Milky Way)
Mariner's End
The Hart at Bay
The Winter Wind
The Trick of It
The Blue Imp

The other great naming tradition is an odd pair, like the Pig and Whistle or Eagle and Child--or best of all, the Frog and Peach. In that style:

The Knife and Thistle
The Star and Sickle
The Cob and Snail

[kizmet-42.livejournal.com]

The Green Lion, which has the addition reference to alchemy.

[malsperanza.livejournal.com]

Nice. Alchemy offers many possibilities--The Golden Chalice, The Burning Basilisk, The Stone and Serpent.

I suppose one couldn't really name a pub The Wet Way or The Chymical Wedding, though.

[danimagus.livejournal.com]

I adore these!

[dynix.livejournal.com]

The Trick Of It I love:)

Some more...

Song and Anchor
Thistlestop
Knight and Eagle
Faun and Childe
The Lady Under Water

[malsperanza.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of a coffee shop called The Thistlestop Cafe.

[dynix.livejournal.com]

me too:):)

I seem to have got stuck on thistles, my last suggestion was going to be The Slake and Thistle.
Or The Snake and Whistle.
Puntastic;)

[lindenfoxcub.livejournal.com]

The Dead Dog

[mudiooch.livejournal.com]

I've always been fond of Butternuts as a pub name.

[pathseeker42.livejournal.com]

The Mitre was our official embassy/pub when I was in Cambridge, but that would probably fair poorly in the faerie world.

There was also the Sussex off of Trafalger Square.

[lostlittlesoul.livejournal.com]

The Rose and Ivy
Berry and Branch
The Syckle Wynd

[houseboatonstyx.livejournal.com]

The Green Mermaid? The Nixie and Drowned Man?

[leatherdykeuk.livejournal.com]

The Moon over the Mound

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

The Carrot and Codpiece (Tuesdays are lesbian faerie nights).

The Goat and Turnip

[doriscrockford2.livejournal.com]

There's a chain of pubs here called the Slug and Lettuce, so along those lines for faeries, what about:

The Human and Tea (Humanity)

some others:

The Poppy and Pixie
The Gorgon's Head
The Dandelion Inn
The Unicorn and Starlight (for the "Comet Book", hee)
The Phoenix and Fury
The Starfish Arms

[malsperanza.livejournal.com]

The Starfish Arms

Brilliant.

[doriscrockford2.livejournal.com]

Thanks! (blushes)

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

The Clurichaun's Chalice

The Cu Sìth and the Coney

[novalis.livejournal.com]

Crow and Alder?

The Burdock?