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Re: Ernulphus
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Brilliant - so his parents tweaked the spelling to make it more Latin-looking than German! Most interesting - thank you.
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They didn't tweak it. Ernulphus IS the Latin form of the name. It appears this way in Latin language writing about the historical bishop of Rochester Ernulf.
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Ernulf ís ostensibly ern+wulf (erne "eagle" and wolf), but the first element could also be an n-stem variant of ere- honor.
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