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pjnia. was at the outset baptismal name
Alone. II has given us Balda, Balderston,
and Blackstone. You remember Count
Baldwin OF Flanders, the leader OF the
fourth crusade, who occupied for year or
two the throne OF Constantinope. Tracing
the name back to its fartbest origin we re-
card II as n diminutive OF Baider, god OF
the Scandinavian mythology. The same
diminutiye syllable occurs in Goodwin ana
Goodwin and Goddin.
fNorE. We LET the above paragraph stand
rs written; but little additional investi-
CATION has convinced US that soin does not,
ike in, perform the Office OF dimnutive
suffx. In the Saxon Chronicle the name
Goodwin appears as Goduine-t. e., "good
protector or FRIEND" being thus synony-
nous with Godfrey "god treond." In
The same way Baldwin IS for oedtd,olne-
re-, "bOld protector or friend" In the
Auglo-Soxon epic known as The Bate OF
Maldon we read, "Ongann tina totndS
man,an. frynd [piurs OF freond] and ge'
feran, ihat hi forth eodon." "Tben began
his protectors, friends, and companions to
exbort tat they should 60 FORTH" This
old word for protector for lord) mas given
us. perbaDs, such surnames as Wine, VIM,
Winston. and Wingield-thougb the last
NAV be from ,cinn, "baltle." 10 Winches.
ter the first syllable Is for "battle," or it Is
not the Celtic g,oent, ga plain" which we
have in Wentworth, "enclosed plain,",
and the last part is the Saxon coaster,
"camp.v In Corwin, II the first syllable
j. the Welsh car, kipsman." the latter is
also probably Welsh for "plain."l
From Thor, the Jupiter tondnS OF TIE
North, we get Thurman, and the locative'
Thoruwell, Thornley,, Thorncli6e. Thorn
combe. Thornton, Tborburn, Thurston,
and Tburstan--the last marking, perhaps
fbe .pot where Thunderstorm" or me
teoriie. fell 10 one Of Tbor's battles with
the giants ip the clouds, thus bestowing
name upon the rustic who subsequently
erected q dwelling near the place. The tina
letter of Thorn we take TO be remnant OF
The old eenitive ending. This possessive
appears still ~ mine and thine. The Dan.
isb vikings often made use OF the personal
name Thorni, which is onr Thorne.
In the plural number OF nouns and the
feminine singular OF ad1ectiyes the old gen.
tive ended in r, as 1t still does IN your,
their, and our. We have it, perhaps, In
FriersoD, which, with Fry, we suppose TO
be descended from Freya, the northern
Venus. Considering the early establishment
OF celibate orders among the Romish clergy
we can hardly imagine Frierson to be "th'
friar's son." Free and Freeman might alst
be taken for descendants OF female named
after the scandinavian goddess but for thu
fact that we lind such entries as "Jobn Il
Fireman" and "Martiu lie Fireman 10 thu
Hundred Rolls, showing that the name. 'lkt
Freeborn, must have been commemorative
Of immunity from serfdom. Its opposite II
Bond.
was VII or Will, brother OF OdiH. I'm
ported by Rollo the Dane into France, ht
furnished the Franks with their Guillaume
and carried into England by the Couqueror,
be became In English both William anC
Guiidm. GiIbam, however, IL CHESS home
tue ham being the same syllable we have
In hamset) Just as Gillespie Is Gitesby or vii
lage. Giles is sometimes simply giyer
name corrupted from Egidius (wheDce alst
Gilbert, "brigbt Egidius," and Gyle anG
Kyle). and sometimes II may be derived
like Giilie, Giiroy, aud Gilman, from Tat
feminine Gill, famous as the companion O
Jack, in going for that upincky pail o
water. aud also mentioned bv Haywood, The
buffoon poet OF Henry Wills reign:
AN shal, be we'll; JACKIE shali have GIL.
Nay, nay; Gin Is welded TO WILL"
The coouettisb ways Of Mrs. Gill seem u
nave DecOBt bOtoiiouo, iVi W hO' WV
the word jul. And that she always gov
erned her good man desp0ticaly Is evident
from the fact that be was known merely al
Giiman-i. g.. CLIPS husband; and some
. times, ironically, as GtIroy-i. e., GilP'
king, or ruler. The good man, however
has triumpbed. like BaDquo. IN bis poster
ity: for the progeny OF the pair are me
with oftener in these days under the title Of
WcGilroy or ucElroy than As simple Magill
GIivray add Gllyery are vaiionyms OF gu
roy, or more probably contrac,ioDs for CHI
or Ray and Gle OF hey THAT IS, "Gile
the son of the King king being, like
Brinee aud Pope and Bishop, title giyer
ia sport To some individual noted for his
pomp0us, dogmatic bearing.
The Scotch surname Gilhllau LOOKS as II
il might be 'sGiie i'll Ann; but'we tint
no record OF IL 10 this or any other fecog
nizaDle shape. With regard 10 tsildersleev'
our search has been more fortunate. W.
sncsunter "Roger Gyldensleve" IN th'
Hundred Rolls, and can readily conceive
how the name might be given 10 some ont
distinguished 10y peculiar magnihcence Of
attire. ~ sk
Recurring 70 our northern mythology
the misc1ievous giant Of evil, who, accord
Jog 70 the myth, oceasioned Baider's death
sas named Loke. Is this our Locke, Lock
Ell. Locoek, and Loclsieyy lie was th'
sxtber III lei, The goddess Of death, corre
spending TO the classical Proserpine. Hel
tatitatioa was Hsih<sn, underneath one o
ti.e roots 0f the tremendous tree YQdratii
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