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Origin of the name RHYENCE.
Etymology of the
name RHYENCE.
Meaning of the baby name RHYENCE.
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RHYENCE. Arthurian.
A giant who trimmed his robe with the beards of eleven
kings, and wanted to make Arthur's beard the twelfth. The name probably
means
"warrior," from Welsh rhys. Also called Rience,
Rion, and Ryence.
Sir Gawaine was the hero of the
battle with the giant Rhyence: "That Gawain with his olde
curtesie." Chaucer, The Squire's Tale. (A Dictionary of English
and Welsh Surnames, Bardsley, 1901)
The romances
of Arthur turned Rhitta Gawr into a fierce monarch called Rhyence, king
of North Wales, an aggressor instead of a defender of justice, who,
however, had his scarlet mantle purfled with the moderate number of
eleven royal beards, and politely demanded that of King Arthur to
complete the trimming, with what consequences no one acquainted with
King Arthur can doubt.
Whence come the names of Ryence and Rhittar?
They connect themselves closely with the universal words for ruler, the
Gadhaelic righ, Teuton rik, Latin rex, and the rajah
of India. Rhys is, in Welsh, a rushing man or warrior,... (History
of Christian Names, Yonge, 1884)
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