What does といった mean?


I started to read The Alchemist (both in Japanese and English) and I'm not
able to understand the meaning of といった in this sentence: 少年の名はサンチャゴといった。 The
equivalent of that sentence in the English version is "The boy's name was
Santiago".




"The boy's name was called Santiago". Or you could think of it as "So far as
the boy's name was concerned, he was called Santiago". I don't think a native-
speaker would worry over-much about what the "subject" of といった is, although
English rather forces the question on us.

This was ordinary usage in English at one time. In the King James Version of
the Bible the account of Jesus's circumcision/naming ceremony has "His name
was called Jesus" where more modern translations have "He was named Jesus".

