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From: "Todd A. Farmerie" <>
Subject: Re: the conqueror's companion lists
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 15:18:06 -0600
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wrote:
>
> (Todd A. Farmerie)
>
> > wrote:
> > > my conjectural identification of the eponymous Odin
> >
> > I think you are using eponymous incorrectly. What group
> > derives its name from Odin?
>
> PLM: You are quite right, Todd; thank you for the correction. Little good can
> come of staying up until three in the morning trying to answer e-mails:-) I
> am referring to the common ancestor of the Anglo-Saxons and the
> Scandinavians. I do recall a family who did bear this surname in Scandinavia,
> or a derivative of it, though:-)

For the sake of those not familiar with the term, an "eponymous
ancestor" is one from whom a peoples claim to derive their group
on national name - i.e. Brutus for Britain, Scotia for the Scots,
Coel Hen for the Coeling war-band, Gewesse for the West Saxons,
Bernic for the Bernicians, etc.

taf

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