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Re: "Svanhildr"

by Miranda (Randee15)

3/24/2005, 3:13 PM

Svanhildr's probably a form of the Germanic Swanhilda. The element swan has an unknown meaning, but hild means "battle".

Other forms in the database are the Norwegian Svanhild, the Icelandic Svanhildur, the German Swanhild and Swanhilde, and the generic variant Schwanhild.

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- Satu (_satu_) +1

3/24/2005, 3:54 PM

the element swan

The element swan (Old High German) / svanr (Old Norse) means "swan" :-)

Regards, Satu

This message was edited 3/24/2005, 3:58 PM

- Miranda (Randee15)

3/24/2005, 4:49 PM

Huh

Well, I just said it was unknown because BtN didn't have the meaning listed.

"Swan" is a kind of "well, duh" meaning though. Lol.

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