Susan Pevensie Susan Pevensie Susan Pevensie is a fictional character in C. S. Lewis's "The Chronicles of Narnia" series. Susan is the elder sister and the second eldest Pevensie child. She appears in three of the seven books—as a child in "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" and "Prince Caspian", and as an adult in "The Horse and His Boy". She is also mentioned in "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" and "The Last Battle". During her reign at the Narnian capital of Cair Paravel, she is known as Queen Susan the Gentle or Queen Susan of the Horn. She was
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe young Lewis much about thinking and communicating clearly, skills that would be invaluable to him later. Narnia is caught in endless winter that has lasted a century when the children first enter. Norse tradition mythologizes a "great winter", known as the Fimbulwinter, said to precede Ragnarök. The trapping of Edmund by the White Witch is reminiscent of the seduction and imprisonment of Kay by The Snow Queen in Hans Christian Andersen's novella of that name. The dwarves and giants are found in Norse mythology; fauns, centaurs, minotaurs and dryads derive from Greek mythology. Father Christmas, of course, was part of