Your name in ... ROHIRRIC! - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Elianna · 08-04-2005, 07:41 PM

There's a new one for ya. Forget all this silly Elvish, what's your name in Rohirric (Old English)? For some of you, it might be the same. For me it's different: Goda?. yee, I get to use an e?.

Elonve · 08-05-2005, 03:53 AM

where do you go for your name in Rohirric ?
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Elianna · 08-05-2005, 08:34 AM

Here are some sites: Modern English to Old and Another better one

Of course you'd have to know what your name means to begin with, so here.

wilwarin538 · 08-10-2005, 08:45 AM

The Council of Elrond site has a Rohirric name database here .

I have two: Fléohíw and Bléofeþer. They aren't direct translations of my name, but they're close.

Morsul the Dark · 08-10-2005, 08:50 AM

Hey this is nifty Andrew means Man which translates to Beorn

Woohoo Im Beorn

Joy · 08-11-2005, 08:43 PM

Mine is Engel Sæl(Angela Joy).

I was doing an Old English course last year. I loved it. Here is the site that I used King Alfred's Grammar

Here is the colleges English Dept page - http://acunix.wheatonma.edu/mdrout/ A lot of stuff on Tolkien. Don't know if this is accesable to the public or not.

Ainaserkewen · 08-11-2005, 08:48 PM

Mine I already knew. Shannon means old river, or wise river is Gaelic. Háréa or Gerádéa I guess is my translation.

Elianna · 08-12-2005, 06:53 AM

If Shannon is supposed to mean both old and wise river, then you could was the word Tolkien used to make Frodo's name, and it would be Frodéa.

Thanks for the Grammar Book, Joy. Lucky you to have Old English classes in college.

Joy · 08-12-2005, 01:07 PM

It wasn't my college. I found this online while looking for Old English studies. I am just a lover of languages.

ninja91 · 11-20-2006, 11:40 AM

A name of one of my characters... Eonas Belklor . Dont laugh.

Rikae · 11-20-2006, 12:17 PM

Árfæstbrego at your service!

Feanor of the Peredhil · 11-20-2006, 12:39 PM

Sigorléan ('reward of victory') and Godgehát ('pledged to God'). I rather think I could break my teeth on those names; my own have a prettier melody to speak.

Fun though, thanks.

Beleg Cuthalion · 11-20-2006, 02:20 PM

Huh! Apparently I don't have one. Bróðor is as good as it gets.

But I wonder to myself why am I doing this? If some one looked that up, they would find out my real name.

Maybe I will edit....

-Beleg

Anguirel · 11-20-2006, 04:21 PM

Ceacelyfthaet seems to come closest..."Cheeks of the Moon"...

Encaitare · 11-23-2006, 12:24 AM

Mine would be Genumen or Ofergán. I wonder if there are masculine and feminine forms, since the closest the CoE name translator had was James.

Rune Son of Bjarne · 11-23-2006, 07:00 PM

I just saw that Joy's name would be "Engel Sæl". That is so funny. . .

In Danish that means "Angel Seal"

mark12_30 · 11-23-2006, 08:05 PM

Hey, I like it.

light Léoht, Léoma. I like the "éom" part especially. (Halfway to Eomer.) And the middle name (masc) gets bright fame Beorhtír, Léohtír -- more éo. Happy Léoma.

Rune Son of Bjarne · 11-23-2006, 08:16 PM

Seal as in the animal that is. . . and yeah it is kind of nice, but quite a coincidence.

I gave up finding out what my name would be as the meaning of my Names is not a single word, but whole sentenses and I am not very good at this.

Lalwendë · 11-24-2006, 02:39 PM

What's with there being two different names that come up of the CofElrond (had to specify Elrond there...in case you thought I was causing theological mayhem on the CofE website

) site?

Anyway, it's given me a laugh because one name that comes up for me is Bilewit (yeah, my humour can be a bit hard to stomach at times).

ArathorofBarahir · 01-03-2007, 03:09 PM

My Rohirric name is Léohtlic. Sweet!

shieldmaiden4xsword · 01-05-2007, 03:40 PM

Fæderdréam, Fæderwynn. I think that is sooooo cool!!!!! father's joy.

Eomer of the Rohirrim · 01-06-2007, 03:55 PM

Sigedryhten? 'The Lord of Victory'? Yes please.

Oddwen · 01-06-2007, 05:47 PM

My name Alice means either truthful or noble, hence

clǽne (honorable)
æðele (aristrocratic)

Middle name (means 'bitter') turns out ábitrian.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ang

"Cheeks of the Moon"

Hahahahem. Hem. Hem. Sorry.

littlemanpoet · 01-06-2007, 06:24 PM

My Barrowdowns moniker: lytelmannscop

My real name: Lytel Giefugodes Gemet

You will (ahem) notice a similarity....

The Might · 01-06-2007, 07:39 PM

I really like mine...
So my BD name would be Se Afol or Se Geweald...sounds nice

My RL name is unfortunately not translatable since I don't have an English name

littlemanpoet · 01-06-2007, 08:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Might

My RL name is unfortunately not translatable since I don't have an English name

Surely there is a "German to Old English" glossary on the internet somewhere....

Besides, Anglo-Saxon is closer to modern German than it is to modern English.

Try this or that

The Might · 01-06-2007, 08:14 PM

Thank you very much kind sir, but these things are of no help I guess
Firstly, because I am not a German, and don't have a German name, but a Romanian name
And even in my country's tongue my name has no meaning
Sabin come from the Sabins that lived on one of the 7 hills of Rome and that had their own problems with the Latins a long time ago
So to translate it isn't quite easy, though my last name would mean mountain man or man of the mountains...

Elianna · 04-11-2007, 06:09 PM

Being a classicist and an amatuer linguist, that last comment, The Might, was just too tempting. An untranslatable name, pfft.

After only a brief search on Google I found this here:

Sabine: "pertaining to a people in ancient Italy," 1387, from L. Sabinus (in poetic L. often Sabellus, connected by Tucker to root *sabh- "combine, gather, unite" (cf. Skt. sabha "gathering of village community," ... O.E. sibb "relationship, peace").

So you could either be Sibb, or Gadrian

The Sixth Wizard · 04-11-2007, 07:40 PM

Apparently I am heardlic. Not the most flattering of names, it must be said.

LjósÁlfr · 04-11-2007, 11:56 PM

Well, I know what my name means... It's Maarten, which is the Dutch form of Martin. And that comes from Latin Martinus, which is derived from Martis, the Genitive case from Mars (Roman war God).

Now how will I translate Mars into Old English?

littlemanpoet · 04-12-2007, 09:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LjósÁlfr

Now how will I translate Mars into Old English?

Uh, Thor?

LjósÁlfr · 04-12-2007, 10:06 AM

Heh, making that a Germanic god would make it Týr/Tîwaz.... Although the generall beliefed, yet still debated, claim that Týr was once the equal of Jupiter (Zeus), would sort of spoil that. Yet the critisim is that well, in the days we have written stuff from, he was more a Mars/Ares

But I shall bother you no more with Indo-Proto-European religeon, and the comparing of the latest variants of it, and just consider my name to be in-translateble

The Might · 04-12-2007, 10:08 AM

I thought Odin would be equal to Zeus since they are both the boss

LjósÁlfr · 04-12-2007, 10:17 AM

Oðin* sorta took the place of Týr, but, as generally beliefed yet still debated, Týr origenally had that function. But you're absolutely right, Oðin is ussualy accepted as the leader of the Æsir**.

(*Oðin is Old Norse for Odin)
(**Æsir is a certain house of God's, in later Norse Mythology the most important, the Vanir and the Jotun are the others)

The Might · 04-12-2007, 01:34 PM

What I always found strange in Norse mythology is the idea that gods can die
Doesn't it say somewhere the Odin dies?

Legate of Amon Lanc · 04-12-2007, 01:48 PM

Actually, yes, they all die in the end. The interesting thing is that they all know how they will die. I think Odin is killed by the wolf Fenrir (anyone confirms? Ljós?) Well, almost all of them. This is why they actually "are not gods, but humans" (to quote Xenofanés).

The Might · 04-12-2007, 01:52 PM

But I think one god (maybe Thor) comes along and kills Fenrir with his bare hands...
Maybe we should consult Neithan Tol Turambar on this, after all he probably is an expert in this field

"I did not explore Norse mythology until much later, and actually, have rejected my former religion in favor of Wotanism. My place in Vahalla is assured. I am a Warrior of the Rainbow Bridge, Acoltye of Hiemdoll, and Bezerker of Wotan, Wielder of the Divine Bolts."

LjósÁlfr · 04-12-2007, 01:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Might

What I always found strange in Norse mythology is the idea that gods can die
Doesn't it say somewhere the Odin dies?

Yeah, the Ragnarök. There's only a handfull of people wo survive that. Óðin die's fighting Fenrir, yet Fenrir he kills as well. Týr fights Garmr, and is killed by him as well and Þórr fights Jörmungandr.... Those are the 3 most important fights, now the make to God/evil God duel list complete;

Freyr - Surtr (A Jotun/Giant)
Heimdallr - Loki

And af course the army of Einherjar, the troops of Óðin, against all the troops the evil Gods/Myth stuff has got.

(please note all name's are given in Old Norse, most have a English varian,t ussualy just dropping the r, since that's the nominative singular male case. ð's and þ's become d's and th's, Þórr = Thor, Óðin = Odin))

The Might · 04-12-2007, 01:57 PM

Do you have those diacritics on your keyboard???

I've never seen them before...
Anyway, guess that's pretty off-topic, so I'll stop here

LjósÁlfr · 04-12-2007, 02:20 PM

I can't help but awensering you're question; alt + d becomes a ð and alt + t becomes a þ, alt + z becomes a æ alt + l becomes ø etc..

08-04-2005, 07:41 PM	#1
Elianna Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Ad finem itineris Posts: 384	Your name in ... ROHIRRIC! There's a new one for ya. Forget all this silly Elvish, what's your name in Rohirric (Old English)? For some of you, it might be the same. For me it's different: Goda?. yee, I get to use an e?. __________________ Enyale cuilenya, ú-enyale mandenya.

08-05-2005, 03:53 AM	#2
Elonve Wight Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Where the stars go blue. Posts: 153	where do you go for your name in Rohirric ? ________ Motorcycle Tires Last edited by Elonve; 04-09-2011 at 06:05 PM.

08-05-2005, 08:34 AM	#3
Elianna Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Ad finem itineris Posts: 384	Here are some sites: Modern English to Old and Another better one Of course you'd have to know what your name means to begin with, so here. __________________ Enyale cuilenya, ú-enyale mandenya.

08-10-2005, 08:45 AM	#4
wilwarin538 Fluttering Enchantment Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 2,508	The Council of Elrond site has a Rohirric name database here . I have two: Fléohíw and Bléofeþer. They aren't direct translations of my name, but they're close. __________________ Comme une étoile amarante Comme un papillon de nuit C'est la lumière qui m'attire La flamme qui m'éblouit Fenris Muffin

08-10-2005, 08:50 AM	#5
Morsul the Dark Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 3,448	Hey this is nifty Andrew means Man which translates to Beorn Woohoo Im Beorn __________________ Morsul the Resurrected

08-11-2005, 08:43 PM	#6
Joy Spirit of a Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Wandering Posts: 1,012	Mine is Engel Sæl(Angela Joy). I was doing an Old English course last year. I loved it. Here is the site that I used King Alfred's Grammar Here is the colleges English Dept page - http://acunix.wheatonma.edu/mdrout/ A lot of stuff on Tolkien. Don't know if this is accesable to the public or not. __________________ God bless, Joy KingdomWarrior@hotmail.com http://kingdomWarrior.jlym.com As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

08-11-2005, 08:48 PM	#7
Ainaserkewen Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A cosmic waiting room Posts: 651	Mine I already knew. Shannon means old river, or wise river is Gaelic. Háréa or Gerádéa I guess is my translation. __________________ Solus... I'm eating chicken again. I ate chicken yesterday and the day before... will I be eating chicken again tomorrow? Why am I always eating chicken?

08-12-2005, 06:53 AM	#8
Elianna Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Ad finem itineris Posts: 384	If Shannon is supposed to mean both old and wise river, then you could was the word Tolkien used to make Frodo's name, and it would be Frodéa. Thanks for the Grammar Book, Joy. Lucky you to have Old English classes in college. __________________ Enyale cuilenya, ú-enyale mandenya.

08-12-2005, 01:07 PM	#9
Joy Spirit of a Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Wandering Posts: 1,012	It wasn't my college. I found this online while looking for Old English studies. I am just a lover of languages. __________________ God bless, Joy KingdomWarrior@hotmail.com http://kingdomWarrior.jlym.com As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

11-20-2006, 12:17 PM	#11
Rikae Mellifluous Maia Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth Posts: 3,489	Árfæstbrego at your service!

11-20-2006, 12:39 PM	#12
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	Sigorléan ('reward of victory') and Godgehát ('pledged to God'). I rather think I could break my teeth on those names; my own have a prettier melody to speak. Fun though, thanks. __________________ peace

11-20-2006, 02:20 PM	#13
Beleg Cuthalion Wight Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Hominum que contente mundique huius et cupido Posts: 181	Huh! Apparently I don't have one. Bróðor is as good as it gets. But I wonder to myself why am I doing this? If some one looked that up, they would find out my real name. Maybe I will edit.... -Beleg __________________ War is not the answer, War is the question and the answer is yes Quis ut Deus Last edited by Beleg Cuthalion; 11-20-2006 at 02:24 PM.

11-20-2006, 04:21 PM	#14
Anguirel Byronic Brand Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: The 1590s Posts: 2,778	Ceacelyfthaet seems to come closest..."Cheeks of the Moon"... __________________ Among the friendly dead, being bad at games did not seem to matter -Il Lupo Fenriso

11-23-2006, 12:24 AM	#15
Encaitare Bittersweet Symphony Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: On the jolly starship Enterprise Posts: 1,814	But I'm not a boy... Mine would be Genumen or Ofergán. I wonder if there are masculine and feminine forms, since the closest the CoE name translator had was James.

11-23-2006, 08:05 PM	#17
mark12_30 Stormdancer of Doom Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars Posts: 4,349	Hey, I like it. light Léoht, Léoma. I like the "éom" part especially. (Halfway to Eomer.) And the middle name (masc) gets bright fame Beorhtír, Léohtír -- more éo. Happy Léoma. __________________ ...down to the water to see the elves dance and sing upon the midsummer's eve. Last edited by mark12_30; 11-23-2006 at 08:09 PM.

11-24-2006, 02:39 PM	#19
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	What's with there being two different names that come up of the CofElrond (had to specify Elrond there...in case you thought I was causing theological mayhem on the CofE website ) site? Anyway, it's given me a laugh because one name that comes up for me is Bilewit (yeah, my humour can be a bit hard to stomach at times). __________________ Gordon's alive!

01-03-2007, 03:09 PM	#20
ArathorofBarahir Wight Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Crickhallow Posts: 247	My Rohirric name is Léohtlic. Sweet! __________________ King of the Dead: The dead do not suffer the living to pass. Aragorn: You will suffer me.

01-05-2007, 03:40 PM	#21
shieldmaiden4xsword Wight Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: where people stick out their tongues at their youth pastor.... Posts: 183	Fæderdréam, Fæderwynn. I think that is sooooo cool!!!!! father's joy. __________________ Sometimes the peril is not in what is around us, what enemies or trials that may come, but what is in our own hearts.

01-06-2007, 03:55 PM	#22
Eomer of the Rohirrim Auspicious Wraith Join Date: May 2002 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 4,859	Sigedryhten? 'The Lord of Victory'? Yes please. __________________ Los Ingobernables de Harlond

01-06-2007, 06:24 PM	#24
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	My Barrowdowns moniker: lytelmannscop My real name: Lytel Giefugodes Gemet You will (ahem) notice a similarity....

01-06-2007, 07:39 PM	#25
The Might Guard of the Citadel Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Oxon Posts: 2,205	I really like mine... So my BD name would be Se Afol or Se Geweald...sounds nice My RL name is unfortunately not translatable since I don't have an English name __________________ “The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.” Delos B. McKown

01-06-2007, 08:14 PM	#27
The Might Guard of the Citadel Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Oxon Posts: 2,205	Thank you very much kind sir, but these things are of no help I guess Firstly, because I am not a German, and don't have a German name, but a Romanian name And even in my country's tongue my name has no meaning Sabin come from the Sabins that lived on one of the 7 hills of Rome and that had their own problems with the Latins a long time ago So to translate it isn't quite easy, though my last name would mean mountain man or man of the mountains... __________________ “The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.” Delos B. McKown

04-11-2007, 06:09 PM	#28
Elianna Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Ad finem itineris Posts: 384	Being a classicist and an amatuer linguist, that last comment, The Might, was just too tempting. An untranslatable name, pfft. After only a brief search on Google I found this here: Sabine: "pertaining to a people in ancient Italy," 1387, from L. Sabinus (in poetic L. often Sabellus, connected by Tucker to root *sabh- "combine, gather, unite" (cf. Skt. sabha "gathering of village community," ... O.E. sibb "relationship, peace"). So you could either be Sibb, or Gadrian __________________ Enyale cuilenya, ú-enyale mandenya.

04-11-2007, 07:40 PM	#29
The Sixth Wizard Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Stuck under a rock in Valinor with Ar-Pharazon. Posts: 480	Apparently I am heardlic. Not the most flattering of names, it must be said.

04-11-2007, 11:56 PM	#30
LjósÁlfr Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Sá er einn staðr þar, er kallaðr er Álfheimr. There is a place in the sky, that's called Elf Home. Posts: 23	Well, I know what my name means... It's Maarten, which is the Dutch form of Martin. And that comes from Latin Martinus, which is derived from Martis, the Genitive case from Mars (Roman war God). Now how will I translate Mars into Old English?

04-12-2007, 10:06 AM	#32
LjósÁlfr Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Sá er einn staðr þar, er kallaðr er Álfheimr. There is a place in the sky, that's called Elf Home. Posts: 23	Heh, making that a Germanic god would make it Týr/Tîwaz.... Although the generall beliefed, yet still debated, claim that Týr was once the equal of Jupiter (Zeus), would sort of spoil that. Yet the critisim is that well, in the days we have written stuff from, he was more a Mars/Ares But I shall bother you no more with Indo-Proto-European religeon, and the comparing of the latest variants of it, and just consider my name to be in-translateble

04-12-2007, 10:08 AM	#33
The Might Guard of the Citadel Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Oxon Posts: 2,205	I thought Odin would be equal to Zeus since they are both the boss __________________ “The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.” Delos B. McKown

04-12-2007, 10:17 AM	#34
LjósÁlfr Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Sá er einn staðr þar, er kallaðr er Álfheimr. There is a place in the sky, that's called Elf Home. Posts: 23	Oðin* sorta took the place of Týr, but, as generally beliefed yet still debated, Týr origenally had that function. But you're absolutely right, Oðin is ussualy accepted as the leader of the Æsir*. (Oðin is Old Norse for Odin) (**Æsir is a certain house of God's, in later Norse Mythology the most important, the Vanir and the Jotun are the others)

04-12-2007, 01:34 PM	#35
The Might Guard of the Citadel Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Oxon Posts: 2,205	What I always found strange in Norse mythology is the idea that gods can die Doesn't it say somewhere the Odin dies? __________________ “The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.” Delos B. McKown

04-12-2007, 01:48 PM	#36
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	Actually, yes, they all die in the end. The interesting thing is that they all know how they will die. I think Odin is killed by the wolf Fenrir (anyone confirms? Ljós?) Well, almost all of them. This is why they actually "are not gods, but humans" (to quote Xenofanés). __________________ "Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories

04-12-2007, 01:52 PM	#37
The Might Guard of the Citadel Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Oxon Posts: 2,205	But I think one god (maybe Thor) comes along and kills Fenrir with his bare hands... Maybe we should consult Neithan Tol Turambar on this, after all he probably is an expert in this field "I did not explore Norse mythology until much later, and actually, have rejected my former religion in favor of Wotanism. My place in Vahalla is assured. I am a Warrior of the Rainbow Bridge, Acoltye of Hiemdoll, and Bezerker of Wotan, Wielder of the Divine Bolts." __________________ “The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.” Delos B. McKown

04-12-2007, 01:57 PM	#39
The Might Guard of the Citadel Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Oxon Posts: 2,205	Do you have those diacritics on your keyboard??? I've never seen them before... Anyway, guess that's pretty off-topic, so I'll stop here __________________ “The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.” Delos B. McKown

04-12-2007, 02:20 PM	#40
LjósÁlfr Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Sá er einn staðr þar, er kallaðr er Álfheimr. There is a place in the sky, that's called Elf Home. Posts: 23	I can't help but awensering you're question; alt + d becomes a ð and alt + t becomes a þ, alt + z becomes a æ alt + l becomes ø etc..