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Help[Opinions] Re: Garrett
in reply to a message by Britney
I prefer Gareth and Garrick, but Garrett is equally nice. Very handsome. Different, without being weird.
I'll quote now from, "Irish Names for Children," by Peg Coghlan:
GARRET (GEAROID)
(Also Gearalt) The name is essentially Anglo-Norman, coming in with Strongbow* and settling happily. It is anglicized as Gerard and as Gerald, a form not so common in Ireland but the usual one in Britain. The original word was Germanic and meant 'hard as a spear,' and with the prefix 'Fitz' (the Norman word to correspond with the Irish 'Mac,' though usually indicating ilegitimacy) it became the surname of the greatest Norman-Irish family.
* Richard "Strongbow" de Clare invaded Ireland in 1169-70 from Normandy in Northwestern France. The Normans were originally Vikings who stayed and mixed with the local French. (footnote not in the text)
I'll quote now from, "Irish Names for Children," by Peg Coghlan:
GARRET (GEAROID)
(Also Gearalt) The name is essentially Anglo-Norman, coming in with Strongbow* and settling happily. It is anglicized as Gerard and as Gerald, a form not so common in Ireland but the usual one in Britain. The original word was Germanic and meant 'hard as a spear,' and with the prefix 'Fitz' (the Norman word to correspond with the Irish 'Mac,' though usually indicating ilegitimacy) it became the surname of the greatest Norman-Irish family.
* Richard "Strongbow" de Clare invaded Ireland in 1169-70 from Normandy in Northwestern France. The Normans were originally Vikings who stayed and mixed with the local French. (footnote not in the text)
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