Message: "Old Danish???" - Behind the Name

Old Danish???

by Isemay

8/18/2007, 9:23 PM

A poster on big baby name board had Fritha as one of her favorite names. I can only find on the web that it's Old Danish and I dont know how to say it! Can you help please?

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- Isemay +1

8/20/2007, 8:22 PM

Ta! I know the name appears in "The Snow Goose", I just wanted to be sure how it was said. I hope someone else can shed some light for me. I should ask this poster on the other site. Didn't think to do that.

- Miamia

8/21/2007, 3:13 AM

I'm Danish, but I've never heard the name before...

But I would pronounce it something like "Fre-tah".

- Caprice

8/19/2007, 11:40 AM

I think the "th" if Fritha was originally a letter now only used in Icelandic (and perhaps Faroese) - it looks a bit like the letter D and is pr. like "th" in "the". As far as I know, the name Fritha isn't commonly used in Denmark.

This message was edited 8/19/2007, 11:41 AM

- Lucille

8/19/2007, 4:56 AM

I believe it's pronounced FREE-ta (close to Frida, but the "free" is pronounced much shorter). It might also be pronounced as Fritta, however (similar to the word "wicca").

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