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Post by Mlle Bienvenu on Dec 1, 2004 11:32:03 GMT -5
Just thought maybe someone else would be interested... I stumbled accross the name meaning for Trelawney whilst browsing a last name website...
Trelawney - (origin: Local Cor. Br.) The open town near the water; from Tre, a town, lawn, open, and ey, water.
EDIT BY LOLUA: Sorry about this, but I changed the subject of this post to change the title of the thread. I thought it would better reflect the shape this thread is likely to take.
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Post by Mlle Bienvenu on Dec 1, 2004 11:46:38 GMT -5
this is pretty interesting.... If memory serves, there's a wizard named Hengist of ..Woodcroft? is it? on a Chocolate Frog card.... anyone remember what he's famous for?
Search results for: Rowena
(origin: Sax.) From Rouw, Dutch, peace, and rinnan, Saxon, to acquire. The name of the beautiful daughter of Hengist, a renowned leader of the Saxons, "who, having the Isle of Thanet given him by King Vortigern for assisting him against the Picts and Scots, obtained as much ground as he could encompass with an ox-hide, on which to build a castle, which being finished, he invited King Vortigern to a supper. After supper Hengist calls for his daughter Rowena, who, richly attired, enters the room with a graceful mien, with a golden bowl full of wine in her hand, and drinks to King Vortigern in the Saxon language, saying, 'Be of health, lord, king,' to which he replied, 'Drink health,' which, I think, is the first health we find in history, and claims the antiquity of about 1400 years. Vortigern, enamored with her beauty, married her, and gave her and her father all Kent."
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Post by Mlle Bienvenu on Dec 1, 2004 11:59:02 GMT -5
This one interests me in particular, as I've been playing with the idea may have worked a bit of Welsh myth into her tale involving the mystery of the Dog, Roebuck and Lapwing... the myth goes (as I understand it) that Gwydion engaged in a contest (or a battle, it's unclear) with Bendigiedvran to obtain three animals of the underworld which guard a secret, the Dog, the Roebuck and the Lapwing. anyway the battle (perhaps of words) ensues where Gwydion magically causes the trees to become footsoldiers in the fight against Bendigeidvran (I say it may be a figurative battle, because each of the trees stands for a letter of the celtic alphabet, and the contest is that Gwydion must guess Bran's name, which he does, and obtains the animals)
Anyway, the Dog guards the secret
the roebuck hides the secret
and the lapwing disguises the secret
I'm still unclear as to what the secret actually is.. I must research it more...
Okay...long story (not so) short, I found this to be interesting in light of that....
Dorcas
(origin: Greek.) A doe, a roe-buck. Lucretius says that by that name amorous knights were wont to call freckled, warty, and wooden-faced wenches.
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Post by Mlle Bienvenu on Dec 1, 2004 12:09:12 GMT -5
Dudley
(origin: Local) A town in Worcestershire, England, so called from the old English Dode-ley, the place of the dead, a burying-ground. Dodelig, in the Danish, signifies pale, death-like, mortal; so also the Dutch Doodelijk, and German Todlich. Duv-da-lethe, in the Gaelic and Celtic, which has been corrupted to Dudley, has the same signification.
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Post by Oracle Of Odd on Dec 1, 2004 12:13:14 GMT -5
this is pretty interesting.... If memory serves, there's a wizard named Hengist of ..Woodcroft? is it? on a Chocolate Frog card.... anyone remember what he's famous for? Hengist of Woodcroft Founder of Hogsmeade Medieval, dates unknown Driven away from his home by Muggle persecutors, Hengist is supposed to have settled in Scotland where he founded the village of Hogsmeade. Some say the Three Broomsticks Inn used to be his home. I went all the way downstairs and found his wizarding card on one of the video games. Unfortunately, I have just been made aware that the Lexicon could have given me that definition word for word. Hengist was also a major part of a rather unfortunate fanfiction I read once ... I don't even want to get into that. |
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Post by Mlle Bienvenu on Dec 1, 2004 12:19:05 GMT -5
The very last comment is the one that interests me most, also interesting is that it reminds me of Piers Polkiss, Dudley's crony....
Percy;piercy;percey
(origin: Local) The renowned family of Percy, of Northumberland, England, derived their name from Percy Forest, in the Province of Maen, Normandy, whence they came, which signifies a stony place, from pierre. It may signify a hunting place, from pirsen, Teutonic, to hunt; percer, French, to penetrate, to force one's way.
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Post by Mlle Bienvenu on Dec 1, 2004 12:20:46 GMT -5
Pringle
(origin: Local) Prencyll, a hazel-wood, from pren, Welsh, a wood, and cyll or coll, hazel. Pringle, an obsolete Scottish coin.
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Post by Mlle Bienvenu on Dec 1, 2004 12:21:39 GMT -5
Riddell
(origin: Local) From lands in the county of Yorkshire, formerly called the Ryedales.
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Post by Mlle Bienvenu on Dec 1, 2004 12:26:16 GMT -5
Wetherby
(origin: Local) A town in west Yorkshire, England; the wide or extended village; Weider, Dutch, a herdsman, Weideri, the place of fattening cattle, and by, a village.
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