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Origin of the name ESTRILD.
Etymology of the
name ESTRILD.
Meaning of the baby name ESTRILD.
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ESTRILD.
Arthurian. German or Scythian.
"Star-battle." Another name for the Cornish or Welsh Esyllt/Essylt
(q.v.), French Iseult
(q.v.), which again go back to the German Ishild
("ice-fighter"). Also spelled Estrildis,
which see.
... in this battell against the
Hunnes were three yong damsels taken of excellent beautie, specially one
of them, whose name was Estrild, daughter to a certeine king of Scythia.
With this Estrild king Locrine fell so farre in loue, notwithstanding a
former contract made betwixt him and the ladie Guendoloena, daughter to
Corineus duke of Cornwall, that he meant yet with all speed to marie the
same Estrild... (Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and
Ireland, v.1, 1807)
When Locrine deserted
Gwendolen for the sake
of Estrild, a fair German captive, she made war upon him, in the
course of which he was killed, and Estrild and her daughter Sabrina, or
Avern, were made prisoners; whereupon, the jealous and revengeful queen
caused both to be drowned in the river, thenceforth called Sabrina or
Severn; in Welsh, Hafreu, where we may hope that the damsel became the
lovely nymph who "listened and saved" the lady from Comus and
his crew. Estrild is Essylt
(or Iseult)
in the Welsh which Geoffrey copied.
(History of Christian Names, Yonge, 1884)
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