At 2:47:39 PM on Sunday, February 1, 2004, Joao wrote:
> Has the German name Ilsa/Elsa any mythical meaning?
For the most part it's simply a pet form of <Elisabeth> in
origin. <Else> does appear as the name of a magic-wielding
female in Wolfdietrich, and there's apparently a 9th c.
instance of the name in Förstemann, but those seem to be
isolated.
Brian