In a literary dialogue online in the novel, Le Mystère de l'Académie d'Hèlba-Nerka I find this excerpt: "...que le père d'une Fryzarde pouvait être un elfe ou encore son propre nom, Taïlaranne..." which translates as "...that the father of Fryzarde could be an elf or else his own name, Taïlaranne...", indicating use as a given name in at least this example of French literature. -------------- Original message -------------- From: Christopher M Richards <cmr1ch6rd7@blueyonder.co.uk> > I'm wondering if what you have written as "ff" is actually the 16th > century way of writing a capital F. And that makes me wonder about the > rest of the letters. > Is it possible to scan the name and let us see what it looks like. > > Christopher Richards > > Mike Nason wrote: > > In a will dated 1586 one of Edmond Nason's daughter's had the name > > 'ffryzarde'. A respected opinion was that the name could have been a > > version of 'Frideswide' (patron saint of Oxford). > > > > I have no reason to now reject that possibility but write to ask if > > anyone would venture an opinion as to how 'ffryzarde' might have been > > pronounced in Warwickshire, in 1586! I am re-visiting the will and > > perhaps idly speculating on other possible origins for the name, > > wondering what the local accent and the phoenetic spelling of the scribe > > might have done to the 'real' name. I have not seen any similar names > > in any other source of the period. > > > > Mike Nason > > > > > > > > > > ==================================== > > WEB PAGE: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/ > > ARCHIVES: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=OLD-ENGLISH > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OLD-ENGLISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > ========================== ========== > WEB PAGE: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/ > ARCHIVES: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=OLD-ENGLISH > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OLD-ENGLISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message