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25 Jan 2025, 5:46 pm

Ethelthreth Winetiger wrote:
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I was trying to figure out where your name came from. The internet led me here.


Ohh, I'm not familiar with that. It is an old Gaelic name.


It's Old English, not Gaelic. It translates roughly as well-read or nobly advised. Literally Aethel (noble, or kingly) + read.

St. Æthelthryth was an Anglo-Saxon queen and saint. Two of her sisters also became saints.

Aethel/Ethel is a common name element in Germanic languages. Read is a pretty common one too, sometimes as reda or reða or reth.


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25 Jan 2025, 7:19 pm

Welcome to Wrong Planet Winetiger ... hope you find lots of like minded people with similiar interests..
We have plenty here on WP


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25 Jan 2025, 11:40 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
Ethelthreth Winetiger wrote:
jimmy m wrote:
I was trying to figure out where your name came from. The internet led me here.


Ohh, I'm not familiar with that. It is an old Gaelic name.


It's Old English, not Gaelic. It translates roughly as well-read or nobly advised. Literally Aethel (noble, or kingly) + read.

St. Æthelthryth was an Anglo-Saxon queen and saint. Two of her sisters also became saints.

Aethel/Ethel is a common name element in Germanic languages. Read is a pretty common one too, sometimes as reda or reða or reth.


Oh, very interesting. I just assumed, so I appreciate the context.



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According to Wikipedia

Æthelthryth was probably born in Exning, near Newmarket in Suffolk. She was one of the four saintly daughters of Anna of East Anglia, including Wendreda and Seaxburh of Ely, all of whom eventually retired from secular life and founded abbeys.

Æthelthryth made an early first marriage in around 652 to Tondberct, chief or prince of the South Gyrwe. She managed to persuade her husband to respect her vow of perpetual virginity that she had made prior to their marriage. Upon his death in 655, she retired to the Isle of Ely, which she had received from Tondberct as a morning gift.

No offense but I think I like this version better. It incorporates a bit of music into the soul.


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