02-10-2010, 12:45 PM
Quote:As for sources, Alanus and others have liberally plastered the website with good ones and with good perceptive comment. Are you suggesting that the Alan name indicates "furry fox person" all the way from Britanny ferries to Moesia to Ossetia?Well, I named my son Bran (raven) but his hair is not exactly black.. Nor does he have wings, btw.
IF the name Alan in Brittany and elsewhere has any connections with the tribal group (as you suggest, and you are following Malcor & Littleton here), where is the proof? I mean, it sounds alike, but is there any other tribal group which name is used in a similar fashion? Rom for Roman, Vik for Viking, Sarm for Sarmatian? I think not. I have seen such tribal names used as a last name or epithet. Such as X 'the Alan', or X 'of the Alani', but not as given name.
The one exception would be Frank, but there we already have an exception, because the name 'frank' also means 'sincere or truthful'.
My guess would be that this is yet another case of the hasty theory: "it sounds like... so it must be...".
Robert Vermaat
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MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
