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in reply to a message by Catalina
Neat! How was it?
I fell for the name when I read a book about all of Henry's children, the illegitimate ones as well as the legits. He had a daughter Etheldreda, which must have sounded old fashioned even then. ;0) In the book it says that she was named after that very saint whose church / chapel you visited. How tacky for him to have named her after a place where he married / celebrated his marriage to Catherine, right?. But that was his style, I guess. Anyway, she did get a very cool name.
I have no idea how to pronounce Etheldreda. Just going off of my very, very limited understanding of early English, I'm saying "eth-el-DRAY-duh." I'm also guessing it turned into "AH-dray" and then more modern "AH-dree."
But if anyone has better informaiton I'm very pleased to learn more about the name. Early English pronunciation is fascinating -- the Great Vowel Shirft and all . . . .
I fell for the name when I read a book about all of Henry's children, the illegitimate ones as well as the legits. He had a daughter Etheldreda, which must have sounded old fashioned even then. ;0) In the book it says that she was named after that very saint whose church / chapel you visited. How tacky for him to have named her after a place where he married / celebrated his marriage to Catherine, right?. But that was his style, I guess. Anyway, she did get a very cool name.
I have no idea how to pronounce Etheldreda. Just going off of my very, very limited understanding of early English, I'm saying "eth-el-DRAY-duh." I'm also guessing it turned into "AH-dray" and then more modern "AH-dree."
But if anyone has better informaiton I'm very pleased to learn more about the name. Early English pronunciation is fascinating -- the Great Vowel Shirft and all . . . .
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