[ANSTHRLD] more name info

[Tim McDaniel]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Faelan Caimbeul <faelancaimbeul at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why is Rhiannon a weirdness? The name is that of a celtic goddess
> from millenia ago.

You just answered your own question.

We register period names FOR human beings, so we require the use of
period names THAT WERE USED BY human beings.  We do not have evidence
of pre-17th Century Welshers being named for gods and goddesses.

Daniel Lincoln
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Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com