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A given name in Icelandic
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Elínór is a masculine given name documented in Icelandic.
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Elinor— “light”
…Her daughter, a person of far different nature, carried her name to Castille, where, the language being always disposed to cut off a commencing _e_, she was known as Leonor, and left hosts of namesakes. Her descendant, the daughter of San Fernando, brought the name back to England, and, as our “good Queen Eleanor,” did much to redeem its honour, which the levity of her mother-in-law, the Provençal Aliénor of Henry III., had greatly prejudiced. Eleanor continued to be a royal…
…Her daughter, a person of far different nature, carried her name to Castille, where, the language being always disposed to cut off a commencing _e_, she was known as Leonor, and left hosts of namesakes. Her descendant, the daughter of San Fernando, brought the name back to England, and, as our “good Queen Eleanor,” did much to redeem its honour, which the levity of her mother-in-law, the Provençal Aliénor of Henry III., had greatly prejudiced. Eleanor continued to be a royal name as long as the Plantagenets were on the throne, and thus was widely used among the nobility, and afterwards by all ranks, when of course it lost its proper spelling and was turned into Ellinor and Elinor, still, however, owning its place in song and story. Annora, frequent in Northern England, was the contraction of Eleanora, and was further contracted into Annot. Also Ellen was Lina, or Linot.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part III, Chapter II (Names From Greek Mythology), Section VI (Hele) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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