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

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).