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Close but no cigar. First the compiler divides his names into Latin/Biblical, Anglo Saxon, and Welsh. But the scribe is not using Anglo Saxon forms, but late East Germanic forms you'd see in Gothic Italy, Vandal north Africa and finally Burgundy. Gu for W, t for d, and i for e. The second element is not OE Ric, but Burgundian rit, cognate with OE read/ræd/red counsel. This is common. Scribes never ask "how do you spell that", they just use the spelling and pronunciation of their own dialect.

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