LL-L "Names" 2004.07.30 (06) [E]

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From: Szelog, Mike <Mike.Szelog at citizensbank.com>
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2004.07.30 (04) [E]

Would Roger then, be more or less the "modern" rendition of the Anglo Saxon
"Hrodhgar" (as in the poem Beowulf)?!

Mike S

Ron wrote, in part:
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Old Saxon:
hrōth + gêr

Old German:
*ruod? + gēr

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Names

Mike (above):

> Would Roger then, be more or less the "modern" rendition of the Anglo
Saxon
> "Hrodhgar" (as in the poem Beowulf)?!

I assume so, Mike, though I hadn't even made the connection.  Thanks.

For instance:


320
   Hroðgar maþelode,         helm Scyldinga:
   "Ic hine cuðe         cnihtwesende.
   Wæs his ealdfæder         Ecgþeo haten,
   ðæm to ham forgeaf         Hreþel Geata

375
   angan dohtor ...

320
   Hrodhgar, Helmet of the Scyldings, replied,
   "I knew him well from our boyhood days.
   To his father, named Ecgtheow,
   Had Hrethel the Geat given

375
   His only daughter ...

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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