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From: <span class="gd"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Jacqueline Bungenberg de Jong</span></span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:Dutchmatters@comcast.net">Dutchmatters@comcast.net</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L "Etymology" 2010.02.09 (02) [EN-NL]</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="NL">Re: Gedicht van Guido Gezelle. </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" lang="DE">Bedankt Luc. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" lang="NL">Dat was lang geleden, maar ik ruik ze
weer….. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="DE"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Jacqueline</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Seattle<br><br></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
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From: <span class="gd"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"><a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></span></span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L "Etymology" 2010.02.09 (02) [EN-NL]</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">from Heather Rendall <a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">PaulÂ
wrote</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
The tradtional founders of the Jutish kingdom of Kent
were supposed brothers Hengest and Horsa, possibly actually two versions of the
name of the same man. Some writers claimed it was a male/female pairing,
but that's probably because people trained in the Classics thought -a was a
feminine ending (it is in Latin). It's masculine in OE.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I have been fascinated by
this pairing ever since I first learnt the German word 'Hengst'. I could not
believe any mother would name BOTH her sons for the same animal - tho' may be
in different guises i.e. Stallion & Horse.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">As the Jutes rode under the
flag/emblem of the White Horse as Kent still does and as leaders'
names were often totemic in those days, I understand it to be a mistake or over
accuracy on behalf of the Venerable Bede in whose account they first appear. I
would hazard a guess that Bede had two sources : one Anglian and one Saxon in
which the leader's name was given as Hengist and Horsa respectively. Not
wishing to ignore a source, he created a brother to attach the 2nd name to, and
then he had him killed off in the first battle ( convenient, eh?).</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I've just looked up the
Oxford Dict of Place Names and found this - intriguingly.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Henstridge Somerset -
956 Hengstesrig - ridge where the stallions were kept. The place is near
Horsington and in a charter of 923 Horspol is mentioned.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Horsington = Horstenetone
in the DB = the tun of the horsekeepers or grooms. Bur there is also a
Horsington in Lincolnshire
which si supposed to derive from Horsa's people.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">So I bet the leader of the
'people of the white horse' were either known as Hengist or Horsa - it just
depended which language you spoke.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">best wishes</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Heather</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Worcestershire</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, UK</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
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