[ANSTHRLD] Name question: Joe the <color>

Jennifer Smith jds at randomgang.com
Mon Aug 8 10:57:22 PDT 2011


On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Joseph Percer <jpercer at gmail.com> wrote:
> (Or, Blue Donald, son of Alustrainn Son of Donald.) (Is Alasdair
> anglicized form of Alustrainn?)... Either way, A correctly formed

Well, sort of. Alistair is the anglicized form (okay, I'm taking
Wikipedia's word for that, maybe it's just another variant) of all the
Gaelic versions of Alexander, including Alasdair and Alustran and
points inbetween.
http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/Alaxandar.shtml

-Emma



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