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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 137 I
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History Of Christian Names. By The Autho...
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singular religion affected their . " The words t whence f names als were compounded with ithets were terms usuall of y the offices names of
r all ti y con and vey hose ing g ood anim auguries , together . They were ep usuall or y connected with gene some - grea ination t hero revelled belonging to the whic various hfor the cycles most of part myth under , in which Christian the Teuton influence
imdescended ag from the , divine to the , heroicand then , to fairy tale . , is t " he These t Teutonic Scandi centres avia of tholog legend ical may , be tem considered as elabo as rat threefold e and oe . ti There cal as
and tha of development t Saxons of grea the , Gr thoug eek and s h , n and t Louis heir which n earl my le Debonnaire belonged y convers in io sys unfortunat n part gave , at , least it el , e to destroyed hundre the _G-oth d p the year s , F poetry rank s less s ,
that would have , shown us what it had been among them y . " Nextthere is the cycle of romance , represented in Scandinavia by the
the latte V r ilki par n , t of Sag t he , and elder in E the dda centre and tales of by that Europe the have Volsu by n the ga N themselves Saga ibelungenlied , in Denmar round , w k here the by
names old myths of Attila have become the Hun heroic and _Theodoric of Veron hung ewho in Germany is the centre of a great number , of ancient legends , once , doubtless of deified
ancestors " Thirdl . y , we have the grand poetical world , In which Charlemagne has Tom been ance adopt S panish as the bal sove lad r and eign Italian , and Roland poetry , is which the hero is to — continental the world of chivalry French
what the , Round Table is , to our own . " Thus the the sec whole ond dei farnil tin the of F Teutonic rancis and triad F . anny The is word traced Frey to
si Frey gnifies , joyous freedom y . Thus—Dutch both u Franja the _vrozve beloved _, or as free and donna , was the had the free lord done woman and in ; master Ital the y , northern , becoming so his freue wife the , was German generic likewise jfrau term frea , and for ,
gave ¦ woman As V . t he name t gods , the to grew the th moon ? she man , became to , Odin the sixth the took goddess day to of wife the of Fri love week gga to , ; t she he ,
as enus o sou m north an of . small It is presumed perty she and g so ave throug the nam h a e variety to Franklin of imitations , a free- _,
pro , down The to two the present vens who day . t on Odin ' s shouldersand revealed to
thoug him ives all the ht that and name mem passed of ory . in h The the and firs world Hugo t of , were these Hu Gadar Hug mytholog inn n , made an ical d M it creatures unni popular nn ,
i n Walesand it Hug is very , frequen . tly met with in Domesday BookIt , is supposed to have named our Howards .
name It . is it pleasant is a Teutonic to learn word that si Albert gnifying is nobly a veritable bright national and as
Aethelbyrht ; was a favourite name among the Anglo _, Saxons . earl f In yin like y g period hel manner per . of Adopted , men Alexandra _^ "was in Scotlan popular , thoug d h , throug it of chiefl Greek hout y settled ori Europ gin in , e and Germany at a si very
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Notices Of Books. 137 I
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 137 I
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1863, page 137, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101863/page/65/
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