SR - Sigel-

[j'lynn yeates]

On 23 Sep 98, at 23:25, Brian & Pam Martin wrote:

> >I was going thru some heraldic precedents and ran across this:
> >
> >    [Sigelhundas] Some commenters wondered whether the name's meaning
> >    [``sun-dogs''] was reasonable, but given such Anglo-Saxon terms as
> >    sigelwaras ``sun-men'' (their term for Ethiopians), we saw no reason
> >    not to accept the construction.  The Saxons probably would have used
> >    the term to refer to African dogs, not to the refraction of sunlight
> >    by ice crystals in the upper atmosphere, but I suspect the submitters
> >    know that [dogs were used in the armory].  (Shire of Sigelhundas,
> >    July, 1992, pg. 2)
> >
> >Anyone for a "Sigel-" ("sun") name?  Sigelland?  I combine it below
> >with each of the suffixes from Johnson, _Place Names of England and
> >Wales_, pp. 46-62.  Some of these are not Old English-based, but I
> >don't think that's necessarily a problem (Westminster is Germanic +
> >Latin).  Most of these are the modern forms, not Old English.

i rather like this possibility ... how would "sun wolves" be constructed ??? 

'wolf


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