Re: Same name (was Re: Brithenig-heads)

Eric Christopherson wrote:
>
> At 12:05 PM 4/10/2000 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> >My favorite Spanish name doublet is Hernan/German, ultimately of Germanic
> >origin.
>
> I thought Hernán was just an abbreviated form of Hernando, AKA Fernando,
> obviously related to Ferdinand. I remember that in school we learned about
> <Hernando Cortez> whereas every Spanish source I've seen mentioning him
> calls him <Hernán Cortes> (actually I could have the last names mixed up,
> but I know that the spelling used in my textbooks was different from the
> standard Spanish).
Okay, so it's a triplet: Hernan/German/Fernando.  So much the better!

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