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Re: "Rembrandt" AND (his real name) "Van Rijn"
The combination of the two elements RAGIN and BRAND doesn't have to mean anything at all. In the Middle Ages a lot of times name elements were arbitrarily connected, they were taken from the parents' names.
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If you really wanted a meaning, you could probably tranlate it to "war advisor", or something of the sort.~♥Eirena♥~
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