Period or Not - More Answers, and Part 5

[lumineaux]

Beowulf – Period.  "[T]he name of Beowulf certainly survived until at least the end of the thirteenth century: Bowulf 1195 PN D 604; Bowulf de Rugeberge 1196 P (D); William Bewlf 1264-5 FFSx; William Bewolf 1296 SRSx; William Beowoulf 1297 MinAcctCo. This would suggest either that a knowledge of the poem and of its hero long survived the Conquest, or that Beowulf was a normal Old English name, and not simply an invention by the author of the poem. Given the dated examples provided by Reaney & Wilson cited above, Beowulf is registerable as a Middle English name." (http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2003/02/03-02lar.html)

Culann - Not Period.  There are similar-sounding Irish names, like Cuilen or Culen, but Culann is purely legendary and thus not registerable.  [Culann mac Cianain 09/2007 LoAR R-East]  (http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2007/09/07-09lar.html)

Corwyn or Corwin -- Not Period.  http://www.medievalscotland.org/problem/names/corwin.shtml

Cedric - Not Period.  Thank you, Sir Walter Scott.  http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/1994/06/cvr.html

Mongo - Period.  Both as a Scots name (a variant spelling of Saint Mungo) and as a Mongolian name.  For the Scots cite,  "Index of Scots Names found in the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue" by Sara Uckelman (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/scots/dost/mungo.html)  For the Mongolian cite, http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/baras-aghur/mongolian.html

Back to the ladies, then:

Delia

Hextilda

Alba

Barberella

Joie

Comments

[rlg.livejournal.com]

wow, that was odd about Mongo, I was really guessing, but given some of the names that are period ...

My guesses
Delia ... as a diminuation of Cordelia, yes
Hextilda ... a guess, yes
Alba, a place name, yes, but I don't think so
Barberella ... Barbara is, so I'll guess yes.
Joie ... yes, but again, it's a guess

[ldykatrina.livejournal.com]

Mungo still cracks me up - good to know its period incase I need to change my name (again)
girls - again all guesses on how it sounds to me, the layman:

Delia - period

Hextilda - period

Alba - not period

Barberella - not period

Joie - not period

[lumineaux.livejournal.com]

Mongo is one of the names I really want to convince someone to take. I doubt that Mongo of Rockridge would be registerable, but I live in hope. ;-)

[industrialblues.livejournal.com]

I coulda been Mongo MacRae?!?!?!?!


hmmm...I still could be...

[lumineaux.livejournal.com]

Dude, I will pay the fee to register you as Mongo ;-)

[rlg.livejournal.com]

At last, a threat worse than "you know, Dorcas Doofus is registerable"

[rhiannon14.livejournal.com]

My guesses:

Delia - period

Hextilda - Probably period. I know there are lots of names with -tilda as the suffix, altho I've never actually heard this one.

Alba - period. It just means "white," so it probably got used for people and places.

Barberella - Period. The Italians were more than weird enough to come up with this one.

Joie - Not period as a name, and the word would likely have been spelled Joye. Altho there is Montjoye, as a battle cry.

And I vote that Fergus should change his name to Mongo.