Eunan (or even Onan) is an anglicisation of Adomnán. I've never seen
it applied to the saint either, but English/Anglo-Irish scholars
(like Butler?) may have used it. For those of us who are more used
to English pronunciation, Eunan better renders the phonetics of the
name; it's not pronounced like Adam with nan tacked on, but like a
long U followed by nane.
Maeve (another anglicisation; in Irish it's Medb)
>Hello
>
>I have been an this list for a couple of months, but, aside from one
>precipitous outburst shortly after joining, I have maintained a respectful
>silence. To introduce myself properly: my name is Diane Auslander and I am
>graduate student in history at the Graduate School and University Center of
>the City University of New York. My main area of research has been early
>medieval Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England. I am entering the fray at this
>particular moment out of curiosity as to where Jonathan Gilbert found Eunan
>and a variant of Adamnan. I have spent some time with the early Irish saints
>- mainly Brigit, I confess, but I have dabbled a bit in Patrick, Columba and,
>by association, Adamnan - and I have never come across it. Where does it
>appear?
>
>Diane Auslander
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