[ANSTHRLD] Name Doc Request - William Ironwyrm

[Lady Simone]

not that I know evern Wormy had to change the spelling of his name from the
wyrm to worm.

I'll look through some of the name books Seanan and I have here

Simone


> >Does anyone have documentation for the name William Ironwyrm. The only
> >thing the submitter was adamant on was using the 'y' in 'Ironwyrm'.
>
> It doesn't look like we have ever registered wyrm
> as a compound name for a personal name or anything
> other than some old branch names.
>
> I checked in a few German resources but the iron and
> wurm names don't come anywhere near this. There are some
> more sources I have but they take longer to search and
> I have to catch up from the trip to kings college.
>
> After German, Old English uses worm names but mostly for places.  In
English
> Iron is limited to people who sell
> iron or certain parts of the body like Ironside or
> Iron foot.  German has lots of names for fighters
> wearing armor, armorers, and the iron mining and
> industry.
>
> Another track is to look up the alternate meanings of
> worm.  It also means a distilling coil that can be
> made of iron.  I don't know if a shop sign of a dragon
> made of iron would lead anywhere.
>
> The submitter should know that this name in English
> unfortunately, isn't really period in the desired meaning of mythical
> monster made of iron.  Anything stunt
> heraldry comes up with will be registerable but about as historical as
using
> phasers at the battle of Hastings reenactment.  If the client insists on
> that spelling this may be a deadend.
>
> Gunnora, is there enough evidence to support a name
> like that in Norse?  There might be some twist that
> can be done with Lingua Anglica.  If you find something
> I will look at that angle.
>
> Magnus
>
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