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Betlindis (a former form of Belinda) & Daphne. Betlindis or Belinda stems either from Serpentine of the softer wood of the Linden Tree. Daphne of the Laurel tree. At least two from these three examples might easily format into a male name. Thomas Carlyle glorifies the "the brave old linden" and its shadow as though an encompassing & protective skirt through the following description. "We hear of Entepfuhl standing "in trustful derangement" among the woody slopes; the paternal Orchard flanking it as extreme outpost from below; the little Kuhbach gushing kindly by, among beech-rows, through river after river, into the Donau, into the Black Sea, into the Atmosphere and Universe; and how "the brave old Linden," stretching like a parasol of twenty ells in radius, overtopping all other rows and clumps, towered up from the central Agora and Campus Martius of the Village, like its Sacred Tree; and how the old men sat talking under its shadow (Gneschen often greedily listening), and the wearied laborers reclined, and the unwearied children sported, and the young men and maidens often danced to flute-music."