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Help[Facts] Re: Ferelith: Thank you all, and ...
in reply to a message by Sofia
Pie's link is detailed, all right - wow!
http://pregnancy.doctissimo.com/baby-names/ferelith.html
And the consensus seems to be that it was a Celtic Twilight-type of revival. Which makes sense. I'm just a bit sceptical about presumably non-royal Old Irish parents naming their daughters "Real Princess" as if they'd just found a pea under the mattress. Perhaps there was another reason for its use, which hasn't (yet?) been found.
Fine-sounding name, though! Well worth revisiting.
http://pregnancy.doctissimo.com/baby-names/ferelith.html
And the consensus seems to be that it was a Celtic Twilight-type of revival. Which makes sense. I'm just a bit sceptical about presumably non-royal Old Irish parents naming their daughters "Real Princess" as if they'd just found a pea under the mattress. Perhaps there was another reason for its use, which hasn't (yet?) been found.
Fine-sounding name, though! Well worth revisiting.
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