The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-03-15

wore cropped hair. The disposition in
Southern men to wear long hair, even IN
q climate where 1t is uncom forta bic,
proves their part Morse descent trust
that the editor OF the Virginia Historti--
cal Magazine will go oyer the evidence
and get right this name, whose owners
have played SO important a part IN his
tory, especially In Virginia
In the same magazine is the statement
that Roger Rogers Is from Hrond-gar,
famous spear" On the face Of 1t this
is unlikely. In Morse history and saga
there are several famous swords. The
story OF their making Is told with the
greatest care. and famous fights they
won and the men and monsters killed ny
them are an important and large part OF
Morse history. One was Mimung; an
other was Gvern- bit whose owner cut q
milestone in two with It and never mar
red its edge. We come down to Excali-l
bur- King Arthur's famous sword. and
the sword OF the War-god Mars himself.
cast down from heaven for the use Of
fAttila, the Hun. But no spear In HIS.
tory is indiyldualized.a The spear was
tho tntantrymans weapon. The small
.spca r was thrown at the enemy and
never recovered II The Important name
Roger, Hrod-ger, or Reid-gler, proba bly,
means rs torn Hawk" 8a The hawk was
a favorite bird wlth&the mortimer and
one OF their most famous Of their stories
is OF the dress OF FTrcga, the female god
5dess. whose DOMINIC made the Wearerl
invisible. It was made Of feathers taken,
from hawks. Rod-gler wap q Christian
and white man who having sworn alle-,
glance to Attila. had to- help the latter
"a al
the fyoehzwigs, In the fight with ttila' s
yellow Huns and tTartars, as described
in the great German epic, the Nieho-3
glungen Lied or Lay Of the ;Yoelzungs.a
The latter all lay on the ground Swhenglts
was over Wagner has put It into the
opera OF slegfried, etc. From Voelzurg
has come the surname Wilson. which Is
not "aon of VIII as commonly believed.
The reason there are so many Of them
lis that they are the fragments OF a tribe
They were known in their old Russian,
home as tWiltzni, to the. Germans as
5yyilzen and yelzung, and some OF them
thither, gave their slla inc 70
Wiltshire, England. II
The same magazine speoAs Of "the He-
brew name Yohanan," as akin to Jonas,
John, etc. IT should be remembered that
THE Hebrew language was not the YER
,nacular Of the Jews; they borrowed and
used 1t a while In Palestine, T he word
$Yohanan and the names Johan or John,
Jones' etc, Enthusiastically have IN them
the sansllrit root JIv, which means 70
cause to live, /" II is equally III Joye, and
rs an old 3Aryan name for its Creator q
life and all things.
TO get BACK to Virginia surnamea;f
The name steptoe has neither step nor
TOE IN It, Oe everywhere means 81 sland, ~
The first syllable Is from Icelandics ste pe,i
meaning to throw down, to pour out 'll;t
and Is akin ~ tstoop,' or to cause ~ to
stoop. Referring and applied to the. pour,
ing out Of molten metal into mouds ono
I joned to oe, 1t means found rs' islandt
(where bronze weapons We're cas- tp.s}il
was some Danish or Norwegian = sland
perhap "A IIy. and by attrttlon y, mean
island, too, The sound. being exactly
tho same as oe. i &.
The Virginia name Waddy, that OF 9
colonial tobacco Inspector about 1884. is
from yedoe, meaning Wood Island. at the
point OF land or the west OF the great
Norwegian inlet, West Fiord, II zoe, the
name of3 a Virginia burgess, 029, ~ I4u-g
oe., Tho first syllable Is also written
ia, Or even i the sound Of v IN 1celsndlci