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HelpRe: Name of the day and following up on Hildegard and Ethel
in reply to a message by queenv
I find its clumsy ugliness strangely fascinating, but only in a thoroughly medieval context. Usage in our world would constitute child abuse, but in its own world it fits just fine.
I know a non-English speaking Hildegard, and it's never bothered me or anyone else, but of course she's part of a different naming tradition. If you want a real horror story of a name, try Hildagonda for size! There was a well-known one, Hildagonda Duckett, in South Africa just over a hundred years ago who wrote a recipe book; don't think anyone's used the name since then, though.
I know a non-English speaking Hildegard, and it's never bothered me or anyone else, but of course she's part of a different naming tradition. If you want a real horror story of a name, try Hildagonda for size! There was a well-known one, Hildagonda Duckett, in South Africa just over a hundred years ago who wrote a recipe book; don't think anyone's used the name since then, though.
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