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Subject:	Re: Ansgar, Ansgard, Asgard
Author:	Anneza (Authenticated as Anneza)
Date:	May 15, 2007 at 11:02:04 PM
Reply to:	Ansgar, Ansgard, Asgard by Minikui

Wikipedia says:

germanisch ans- -> Gott -gard -> Schutz

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* weiblich: Asgard
* männlich: Ansgar

So Ansgar is the masculine form, Asgard the feminine, and they both mean God + protection. I don't know if the German version of Wiki is as demented on the topic of name meanings as the English, but this seems sane enough!

Asgard, however, as far as I know is the place where the Norse gods lived, so it's originally an address, not a name. I'd always connected it, rather vaguely, with the great World Ash tree so it would be something like Ash(tree) protection. But I'm no Norse scholar!

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Messages in this thread:

Ansgar, Ansgard, Asgard - Minikui May 15 2007, 9:12:57 AM
- Re: Ansgar, Ansgard, Asgard - Anneza May 15 2007, 11:02:04 PM
  - Re: Ansgar, Ansgard, Asgard - Minikui May 16 2007, 5:26:57 AM
    - Re: Ansgar, Ansgard, Asgard - Anneza May 16 2007, 10:58:17 PM
    - Speculating here... - Miranda May 16 2007, 9:40:35 PM
      - Thanks - Minikui May 19 2007, 1:58:29 AM
- Re: Ansgar, Ansgard, Asgard - garden2 May 15 2007, 5:30:31 PM

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