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ArchivesRe: "Grendel" from "Beowulf"
in reply to a message by Bananagramer
"legend name" sounds less like a true meaning and more like an info to the reader "this is a name occuring in a well-known legend". Why should the meaning of name itself have "name" in it anyway?
Finding something on three different websites does not automatically mean much, as copying of info between naming websites is rampant.
After some quick googling seems to me that the etymology of the name is not really known, but that there are theories, like "perhaps composed of a combination of the words gren and daelan" from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grendel (towards the end)
Or check this scanned page from a book: http://books.google.com/books?id=6C4W4T-6VcYC&pg=PA206#v=onepage&q&f=false
Finding something on three different websites does not automatically mean much, as copying of info between naming websites is rampant.
After some quick googling seems to me that the etymology of the name is not really known, but that there are theories, like "perhaps composed of a combination of the words gren and daelan" from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grendel (towards the end)
Or check this scanned page from a book: http://books.google.com/books?id=6C4W4T-6VcYC&pg=PA206#v=onepage&q&f=false
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