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ArchivesRe: Eidyn - Old English + Haeda - Old Norse?
in reply to a message by Mark C.
Haeda is a strange one, I can find two different possibilities either from the Old Norse 'hæða' meaning "to mock" which seems a little unlikely or the Old English 'haeda' meaning "state" (haeda is the word that -hood, in words such as childhood, boyhood, is derived from).
Eidyn, as in Edinburgh, is of unknown etymology but it's suggested it may be a British form of the Irish goddess Eithne (whose name is said to mean 'kernel, grain'.
Eidyn, as in Edinburgh, is of unknown etymology but it's suggested it may be a British form of the Irish goddess Eithne (whose name is said to mean 'kernel, grain'.
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