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The White CouncilRe: Origins of Tolkien's NamesTolkien and Inklings Discussion |
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The White CouncilRe: Origins of Tolkien's NamesTolkien and Inklings Discussion |
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Posted by Neithan on April 15, 1998 at 13:18:28 In Reply to: Re: Origins of Tolkien's Names posted by Michael Martinez on March 20, 1998 at 10:27:48:
: Now you mention it, I believe nearly all the Hobbit names are derived from Frankish, Celtic (Welsh), and Burgundian sources. : Frodo might be based on Frode, which I think is a Saxon name (but it's been a long time since I came across that reference, and I'm no linguist). : : I seem to remember a Tolkien character called Morwen (of : : Lossarnach) which would seem to be a version of the Welsh name : : Morwenna, which I think means "Sea-woman" : She married a King of Rohan. Her namesake was Morwen of Dor-lomin, wife of Hurin Thalion. : Michael Frode might be Saxon, but in the half-mythic half historical times just before the Viking Age, the was a king in Denmark called Frode (that is; they have dug out a huge longhouse and farm complex at Lejre where his royal seat, according to Viking myths were placed and from whence his descendants ruled large parts of Denmark- the legend of Hrolf and his Hird (bodyguard / guard) is recorded in the "Bjarkamal", Bjarke was one of the Hird-men who was a shapechanger, he could change from a valiant warrior with berserker tendensies to a bear that could not be bitten by weapons, it is worth reading. Hrolf is also the Danish King visited by Beorwulf, but here he is depicted somewhat different. They reckon that the Noble's or whatever-he-was' farm has been there from A.D. 500- A.D 950 (approximately). We can historically prove that royal power over the entire realm moved to Jylland (where the Angles came from) around 950, but it is reckoned that it had already been there for awhile- in 800- 810, a Danish King Godfred bested Charlemagne in all their conflicts, no mean feat, but we can only be 95% certain that he ruled all Denmark). Interesting ??? but long and perhaps tedious so, again; byeee
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