[ANSTHRLD] Name question: Joe the <color>
Scott Catledge
scat at cfl.rr.com
Mon Aug 8 17:52:40 PDT 2011
Never take Wikipedia's word for any documentation: the primary Wikipedia
editor says not to; however, Mari has covered the issue quite adequately.
Colm
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Jennifer Smith
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Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] Name question: Joe the <color>
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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