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So...what is it? Wind? Something between bells?-Selra, Fox Warrioress File:Segalia2.png ^{Decisions, decisions:to kill you or not? Good or bad?} 19:19, August 18, 2010 (UTC)

When I posted this re-discovery a couple years ago, Redwall Wiki administrator Ember Nickel solved it first. -- LordTBT File:Tbtico.jpg ^Talk! 23:27, August 18, 2010 (UTC)

Just in case the answer gets lost, pre Ember Nickel:

South probably is just the letter S. A quire (pronounced like choir) is a paper measure. Similarly, the singing voices bringing pleasure are a choir, and that "sound" is the same as quire. So the first part is Squire. The only squire is Squire Gingivere.

(I will confess that I Googled "ream", my first guess at "paper measure", before arriving at "quire".)

EDIT: Here's more. "I stand between the five and second half/Of Matthias and Methuselah's constant sound."

Well, the Matthias and Methuselah bells would ring, or go ding, or dong, or bong, or...something, at any rate, with "ng" as the second half. 5 is V in Roman Numerals, so putting an I (I stand between) between ng and V leads to "ngiv", the middle of "Gingivere". "Ere five, no, after", makes me think that "ere" should go after the V, so now we're up to "ngivere". Feeling pretty confident.

If the "constant sound" is "ringing", the second half (rounding up) is "Ging". So "Gingivere". -- LordTBT File:Tbtico.jpg ^Talk! 03:35, December 24, 2016 (UTC)