[Facts] Re: Eidyn - Old English + Haeda - Old Norse?
Haeda is a strange one, I can find two different possibilities either from the Old Norse 'hæða' meaning "to mock" which seems a little unlikely or the Old English 'haeda' meaning "state" (haeda is the word that -hood, in words such as childhood, boyhood, is derived from).Eidyn, as in Edinburgh, is of unknown etymology but it's suggested it may be a British form of the Irish goddess Eithne (whose name is said to mean 'kernel, grain'.
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Eidyn - Old English + Haeda - Old Norse?  ·  Mark C.  ·  4/9/2005, 3:47 PM
Re: Eidyn - Old English + Haeda - Old Norse?  ·  kynaston  ·  4/10/2005, 7:35 AM
ATTN - Kynaston  ·  Mark C.  ·  4/12/2005, 5:32 PM
Re: ATTN - Kynaston  ·  kynaston  ·  4/13/2005, 4:15 AM