Tolkien-språkexperten David Salo har följande att säga om Brandybuck-namnen:
David Salo skrev:
Personal and place names from Buckland, the Marish, and Bree were
manifestly intended to be 'Celtic'-sounding; not necessarily in actual
Celtic languages, but with a sound that an English-speaker might think of
as Celtic. This is indicated in Appendix F II (On Translation) to _The
Lord of the Rings_.
Of the names in the family tree "Brandybuck of Buckland", only a few
have a genuine Welsh etymology: Gorhendad "Grandfather" for instance, and
Madoc = Welsh Madawg. Some others are derived from Arthurian legend:
Sadoc, Dodinas, Dinodas (from Dinadan?). Gorbadoc is possibly an
alteration of Gorboduc, a name from Geoffrey of Monmouth. Orgulas is
probably not Celtic at all, but French: orgueilleux (or its Old French
equivalent) "proud", used as an epithet for knights in French Arthurian
romances. Other names may simply be inventions on similar patterns.
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David Salo skrev:
The way Tolkien tells the story, the Brandybucks with their Celtic-style
names were of Stoorish origin, and the Stoors had spent a long time in
Dunland, or a nearby region, before migrating to the eastern Shire. The
Dunlendings, and their relations who had formerly inhabited much of
Eriador, are associated with 'Celtic' names (like Bree = Bryn, Combe = Cwm,
Archet = Argoed). So the nomenclature of the Hobbits has both an "English"
or even "Germanic" component, supposedly coming from the Men who inhabited
the Anduin valley; and a Celtic component coming from Dunland. This
appears mostly in the names of the Brandybucks.
These were originally much more Celtic in appearance, e.g. Gorhendad
(Welsh for Grandfather), Ceredic, Caradoc, Madoc (= Ceredig, Caradawg,
Madawg) with a few names from the French Arthurian legend tossed in for
good measure: Sagramor, Dodinas, Lamorac, Bercilac (the last from Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight, with slight alterations). But in the last
revision Tolkien stepped back a bit, and made these names more fanciful and
so was able to represent all of them (except Meriadoc) as being from the
name-hoards of the Stoors. So Caradoc became Saradoc, Ceredic became
Seredic, Lamorac became Merimac, Bercilac became Berilac.
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