Re: Old German name Walram
in reply to a message by Andy
All of the Germanic Wal- names on this site contain the element wald, meaning "rule", so I'd say that's where it comes from. I agree with you over hraban. So it'd be "raven ruler" or something like that.The Walhalla (Valhalla) translation seems unlikely - if I'm not mistaken, Valhalla is a Norse myth so the wal/val part would be from Norse rather than Old German, and while mix-n-match-linguistics (:-D) names aren't unknown it's probably more likely that the two parts came from the same source.:-)
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Old German name Walram  ·  Andy  ·  9/28/2004, 11:30 PM
Re: Old German name Walram  ·  Chrisell  ·  9/28/2004, 11:39 PM
Re: Old German name Walram  ·  Andy  ·  9/29/2004, 12:34 AM
Re: Old German name Walram  ·  Chrisell  ·  9/29/2004, 12:39 AM
Re: Old German name Walram  ·  Andy  ·  9/29/2004, 12:46 AM
Good point! . . .  ·  Chrisell  ·  9/29/2004, 1:04 AM
Re: Good point! . . .  ·  Andy  ·  9/29/2004, 3:35 AM