Islamic gold dinars in late eleventh- and twelfth-century England -- new brief post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/04/islamic-gold-dinars-anglo-norman.html …pic.twitter.com/wUWAM8C7kn
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By 1173, someone with the family name of Merlin appears as a witness in a document issued at Lisbon...!
I suppose it could be Geoffrey reaching for the Latin Merlinus.
Yes, looks like a change by Geoffrey to avoid the unfortunate connotations that keeping the -d- would produce :)
@caitlinrgreen Slightly off-topic but wasn't there a #viking #settlement somewhere in North #Spain ? What was the timeframe for that?
@TimoOiva There was a British settlement in NW Spain in 6thC & def Viking activity/reported settlement in 9thC
@caitlinrgreen I think there was British Celtic migrations to North West of Spain.
@Archatgs There was indeed...it's a fascinating topic! Territory prob called Britonia :)
Maybe they were just local Celtic names which survived until medieval time?
No, not likely given forms which show insular changes etc, unless we see as deriving from 6thC Britonia in NW Spain?
Thousands of years, isolated communities, original language changes...It's a normal process
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Identical names in Serbian and Irish. Some with etymology in Irish some with etymology in Serbian http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.ie/2014/10/brajan-rajan-kola-deda.html …
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