It also goes by the name, “Boston”
Did you know you live in St. Heraldwolf’s Stone?
Apparently, you do, if you believe a group of cartographers who have put together a world map using names from the “old world” (or, Middle Earth, depending on who you believe …).
From Spiegel:
Called the “Atlas of True Names,” the new map traces the etymological roots of European and global place names and then translates them into English. The “City of Boatmen” is also known as Paris. Should you travel to the Land of the Fire Keepers, you’d find yourself in Azerbaijan. And Italy comes from the Latin word vitulus, which means “calf.”
“We wanted to let the Earth tells its own story,” Stephan Hormes, who produced the maps together with his wife Silke Peust, told SPIEGEL ONLINE. “The names give you an insight into what the people saw when they first looked at a place, almost with the eyes of children. Through the maps, we wanted to show what they saw.”
Oddly, the only names that appear unchanged are “Havana” and “Oakland, California”.
- Map courtesy Atlas of True Names