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hmmm... an idea
ok... so names like
BRITTON m English
"a Breton" from a Middle English surname.
and
WALDO m English, German
Short form of Germanic names containing the element wald which means "rule". Ralph Waldo Emerson was a 19th-century
American poet and author who wrote on transcendentalism.Ruler from Breton?
A breton ruler?
Ruler of Bretons?
Am I even close?~Silver
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Maybe Bretwalda a form of the name Bertwald (German: bright + ruler). There are many different versions of the prefix "bert" such as "brecht", "brekt", "bricht", "brikt", so may be "bret" is another one???The -a at the end sounds very female to me, too...
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