[BG-heralds] "Hrethric" (was: Help with a name?)

[Coblaith Muimnech]

Hrethric/Rick wrote:
> My first name:  'Hrethric' - is mentioned once in Beowulf.

"Beowulf" has been transcribed, transliterated, and translated many  
times.  You have to be specific about what version you're citing when  
you submit something from it, as well as where in the work it's seen  
and in what context.  (Is it a woman's name?  An adjective describing  
a sword?  A verb meaning 'to jump'?)

The name sometimes rendered as "Hrethric" in modern translations of  
"Beowulf" appears on line 1837 as that of a mytho-historical human,  
the son of a king.  I've attached an image of it as it is seen in the  
Nowell Codex (the sole surviving period manuscript containing the  
poem), as well as a scholarly transcription from page 84 of Julius  
Zupitza's, _Beowulf : Autotypes of the Unique Cotton MS. Vitellius A  
XV in the British Museum, with a Transliteration and Notes_ <http:// 
www.archive.org/stream/beowulfautotypes77zupiuoft#page/84>.  (Pages  
printed from this text, combined with a reliable translation of the  
relevant lines into modern English, would make an excellent source  
for your submission.)  As you can see, the attested form is "hreþrinc".

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The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England <http://eagle.cch.kcl.ac.uk: 
8080/pase/persons/index.html> lists some options if it's important to  
you that your name end with "-ric".  "Heorhtric" and "Hereric" (the  
former definitely and the latter probably dating from the 9th  
century) are the closest to what you've started with.  But under "H"  
there're also "Hælric", "Hæmric", and "Heanric", and there're plenty  
more starting with other letters.


Coblaith Muimnech
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