Germanic names

[Alanus]

Thanks for the tip on Tolkien, pretty much on the money. I'll get the "Reader."

I have always been interested in the sprinkling of Germanic names found in Britain, as presumably brought there by Imperial forces. As mentioned before, the most interesting is "Tewdrig ap Theithfallt," or Theodoric son of Theudebald. Vortigern Studies did a piece on him, using the Latin varient of Theodosius... which to me doesn't sound much like Tewdrig or Theodoric.

Most interesting, this character was a real person who died fighting the Saxons circa 470. He had become a monk, and donned his armor for one last battle, in which he took off his helmet "so the pagans could see who he was." He must have been famous, easily recognizable. His son was Mauric/Meyryc, the father of Anna and King Athruis. The Truman Manuscript says, "Saint Anna, daughter of Uther Pendragon, and mother of Saint David." Historians, starting with Thomas Carte in 1747 and going into the Vickie Period, all claimed that Athruis was Arthur, prince of the Silures. And this does make sense in relation to the dates of Mount
Badon and Camlaun.

But I believe that the original Arthur was Tewdrig/Theodoric, who was far more famous, and became one of the Three Canonized Saints of Britain. If this theory is correct, and it's certainly plausible, then the real Uther Pendragon (which originated as Germanic-- Ufar Pandraco-- "Chief Dragonman") was Theudebald... basically making King Arthur's father a German, and most likely a Goth. This is, of course, blasphamy. But, hey!-- it makes for a wonderously controversial book, and beats the totally goofy scenarios of Wilson and Blackett, and Littleton and Malcor (the latter of which are acedemics working on a rediculous premise: the old Iazyges and Lucius Artorious Castus ploy, which can easily be blown away by the Three Generation Theory.)

Anyway, Tewdrig had all the qualifications, obviously a famous foe of the Saxons; and of course, his death wagon was pulled by "a pair of stags," rather significant, since stags were considered the "borrowed mounts" needed to ride to Dreamland/the Otherworld and come back with "all the good things." This would qualify Tewdrig as the "once and future king." The Good Things were honesty, bravery, and a concern for the People. Strangely enough, Tewdrig's grave is still extant... and it's not in Glastonbury. In any event, Germanic names were the clue that led me to this controversial conclusion.

Clickity-click. Stomp. Stomp. "Yavool, herr General!"

A.J. Campbell