[Heralds] German/Norse name for Destiny
Richard Culver
rbculver at hotmail.com
Fri May 4 06:19:04 PDT 2001
>Excuse me? I hope you aren't trying to imply that Sunnifa and her
>sources were representing "unstudied" opinions.
Not at all. If you look at the construction of my sentence, I put it as
aside intentionally to avoid that thought. I have enjoyed this thread. I
am just expressing my years of research because I think I have a decent
opinion and backround, though I know my Old Norse is rusty right now.
It is the
>well-researched, studied opinion of the majority of long-time
>onomasticians that the view you're advocating is pretty much wrong as to
>given names. Names used in the naming pool were just names--that's
>pretty much the point. To quote the Academy of S. Gabriel:
>
>Choosing a name by its meaning is a minefield. Most names derive from
>very ancient roots which had no apparent meaning to anyone by the Middle
>Ages. Consider the name <Thomas>, for example. It derives from an
>Aramaic root that meant "twin", but one would hardly expect a man
>named <Thomas> today to be a twin.
I am sorry but this is outside of the context of the thread. Thomas has
significance of being a Biblical name which is why it came about. In
Germanic culture as a whole, names are not so loaded, particularly in any
area and time NOT exposed to or at least dominated by the Church.
>Bynames, on the other hand, may or may not have been used literally: the
>tall, the blond, the fisherman...whatever. Some may have been used
>satirically, like the nickname "Curly" often used for a bald man earlier
>this century.
I have never doubted the sense of humour of nicknames. Most of my train
of though had been to proper names.
Godspeed,
Cyniric
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