ACADEMY OF SAINT GABRIEL REPORT 1466 http://www.s-gabriel.org/1466 ************************************ From: 16 Feb 1999 Greetings from the Academy of Saint Gabriel! You wrote to us about the name , and asked in what culture it originated. The name is a variant spelling of , derived from the Old English name which is recorded in the Domesday book [1]. We found the Latinized dated to around 1200 [2], so would be a fine name for medieval England. In your letter, you indicated a preference for a pronunciation emphasizing the 'u', presumably as \ED-oo-in\. However, the likely pronunciation of this name is \ED-win\, just like the more familiar spelling. We also noticed that your email address is , so we assumed you were interested in using in your SCA name. There are several places named in England, and several of these are recorded in the 12th and 13th centuries [3], the same period for which we found the spelling of in which you were interested. If you are interested in some form of the name , we recommend or as spellings appropriate circa 1100, or for the 13th century. We hope this has been helpful, and that we can continue to assist you. Talan Gwynek and Alan Fairfax contributed to this letter. In service, --Walraven van Nijmegen Academy of S. Gabriel [1] O. von Feilitzen. _The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book_ (Uppsala: 1937) p. 239 [2] E. G. Withycombe. _The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names_, 3rd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988) [3] Eilert Ekwall. _The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Places Names_, 4th ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991) s.n. Alton