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