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[Facts] Re: What does my name mean where are it's roots, and what is the history behind this name?
by
Anneza
(guest)
5/9/2002, 7:53 AM
in reply to
a message by Brenda
I think I remember reading somewhere that it was a Shetland name that became popular because of a novel by
Robert
Louis
Stevenson. That would explain how it is both Norse and Scottish.
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