by Anneza (guest)
11/28/2005, 10:39 PM
I've got a feeling that it's a date name; wasn't a love-day one on which one's debts were cancelled or deferred? (My reference books and I are far apart ...)
Dunno about the Cornish connection ... whoever wrote The Little White Horse (Mary Stewart?) used it as a family fn and it seems to be set in a magical version of the West Country.