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Re: OT: Of Angles and Saxons

From:caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
Date:Monday, December 13, 2004, 15:43
Wesley Parish scripsit:

>> Sally - or anyone else - do you know the origin of Lloeger? >>I've ..always connected it with the god Lugh, in a sense of "Lugh's >>land". I'm probably wrong. ;)
John Cowan <jcowan@R...> wrote:
>Poking about on the net shows a pretty clear lack of consensus, with >most sources simply saying "etymology unknown". The least ugly of >the etymologies gives us Lloegr < LEGORENSIS (CASTRUM) > Leicester, >an old borrowing -- but if so, where does the Latin root come from, >if not simply borrowed from an older British?
I have seen the proper name Logres somewhere before, perhaps in the Athurian cycle. I wonder if it's related to the name Lloeger. Charlie

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