medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
In the interests of accuracy I should of course acknowledge that
that Benedict Biscop lived, as John Dillon correctly notes, ub the
7th c. (d. 689), not 8th (I'm always dating with Bede in mind).
And for the record, Ms Cook isn't right about Boniface (Bonifatius)
being a Latin calque for OE Wynfrith. The etymology of Wynfrith is
wynn = joy, pleasure, delight (cf. winsome) + frith = peace,
tranquillity, security.
The word for "face" in OE is andwlita or onsyn.
ghb
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>Re: [M-R] New names in religion
>At the same time some Anglo-Saxon missionaries took on new names,
>e.g., Wynfrith was given the then name Boniface by Pope Gregory II.
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>I was under the impression that "Wynfrith" and "Boniface" actually
>mean the same thing, the one word in Old English the other in Latin,
>so this was more a matter of translating his name than renamimg him.
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