I came in late on the wacky names theme and may have missed something. But
the name Astrolabius caught my eye. There is an Astrolabius legend in the
MHG Kaiserchronik (vv. 13086ff. in the MGH edition), a variant on the
story of the youth enthralled by a statue of Venus, the statue itself
being inhabited by a devil. No explanation is known to me for why the
youth is called Astrolabius.
Frank Shaw
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