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From: Nathaniel Taylor< >
Subject: Re: Kings of England
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 17:28:58 -0500


In article <>,
(Kennwalrus) wrote:

>Thanks; I have the haunting feeling that we all had something of a controversy
>over Rad- and Chrod- not too long back, but would rather not turn back for a
>second look, lest I be transmogrified into a pillar of salt ... the linguist
>who told me that Raed- = Chrod- did call the whole area a "linguistic morass"
>...

Well: Rad- in tenth- and eleventh-century *Continental* sources is used
indiscriminately from Rod- notably in variants of the names <Chrod-bert>
and <Chrod-wulf>; this is known from variant spellings of documents which
are known to have applied to the same individual (e.g. the ninth- and
tenth-century French kings of that name). This is not the same as saying
that Raed- and Chrod- were originally equal. The animals will lick me
now.

Nat Taylor

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