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Comments for ETHELINDA:

May also be 'linde' = soft, tender.
-- Amatire  5/18/2005
Noble snake? That's a bit unusual, eh?
-- Anonymous User  6/2/2006
It should be noted that dragons were often referred to as "snakes" in Germanic mythology.
-- Anonymous User  4/4/2007
'Lind' means lime-tree in Old English and was sometimes used poetically to refer to a shield made of that type of wood. Ethelinda could therefore mean Noble Shield.
-- Anonymous User  4/5/2007
Ethelinda Vanderbilt Allen was the daughter of American royalty Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt.
-- Anonymous User  5/15/2007

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