Hereward; the Saxon patriot: a history of his life and character; with a record of his ancestors and descendants, AD445 to AD1896 . Chapter vj. Etymology and Orthography of Hereward. Far dearer the grave or the prisonIllumined by one patriot name,Than the trophies of all who have risenOn Libertys ruins to fame. Moore. He will keep that good name still. He7iry V., Act iii., Sc. N fitting together the connecting links of anancient family history, we may be sure to findthat the spelling of names has varied in thecourse of centuries with the changes whichhave occurred in the language of the co
Hereward; the Saxon patriot: a history of his life and character; with a record of his ancestors and descendants, AD445 to AD1896 . Chapter vj. Etymology and Orthography of Hereward. Far dearer the grave or the prisonIllumined by one patriot name,Than the trophies of all who have risenOn Libertys ruins to fame. Moore. He will keep that good name still. He7iry V., Act iii., Sc. N fitting together the connecting links of anancient family history, we may be sure to findthat the spelling of names has varied in thecourse of centuries with the changes whichhave occurred in the language of the country,and it would be strange indeed if names ofTeutonic or Scandinavian origin did not ex-perience some change in form while passing from the Gothicthrough the Old Saxon or Danish, afterwards corrupted withAnglo-Norman and Middle English, up to our own time.^ In studying these changes it is not only necessary tosupport the presumption of legitimate orthographical modifica-tions by tangible and contemporary proof, but also to observethat no change is occasioned thereby in the meaning oretymology of the name under consideration. In this con-tention, the evidence now adduced, in addition to the knownrules of spelling and pronunciation, will be found in the ^ Professor Max Miiller traces the periods when some of the HindooShastras were written by the construction of the Sansc
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