Thomas the Rhymer.... the Steeleye Span version's my favorite. *grins* Wiki says the Queen later gave him an choice of gifts -- harping or prophecy -- and he chose the latter, leading to the nickname 'True Thomas'. Somehow I didn't think of him as simple, though -- just courteous and open-minded.
There's also Great Tom, the loudest bell at Oxford, and Old Tom, the... least loud bell at Discworld's Unseen University (which breaks through the cacaphony of all the other clocks to toll its twelve sonorous silences).
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Date: 2009-05-12 04:43 pm (UTC)There's also Great Tom, the loudest bell at Oxford, and Old Tom, the... least loud bell at Discworld's Unseen University (which breaks through the cacaphony of all the other clocks to toll its twelve sonorous silences).