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Origin of the name BRANGAINE.
Etymology of the
name BRANGAINE.
Meaning of the baby name BRANGAINE.
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BRANGAINE. Arthurian
legend name. The same as Brengwain
(q.v.), a form of Bronwen
(q.v.), meaning "bosom white" or "white breast."
... It only remained to finally
decide the characters. She considered that Ethelrida should
undoubtedly be Guinevere; but, above all, Zara must be Isolt!
"Of course, of course!" they all cried
unanimously, while Zara's eyes went black. "Tristram and
Isolt! How splendid!"
"And I shall be Brangaine, and give the love
potion," Lady Anningford went on. "Although it does not
come into the 'Idylls of the King,' it should do so. It is just
because Tennyson was so fearfully, respectably Early Victorian! I
have been looking all the real thing up in the 'Morte d' Arthur' in the
library, and in the beautiful edition of 'Tristram and Yseult' in
Ethelrida's room." (The Reason Why, Glyn, 1911)
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