Re: Scandinavia and the Germanic tribes such as Goths, Vandals, Angl

On 2008-11-03 00:22, Rick McCallister wrote:

> Good job, no wonder you went up in Torsten's esteem from a fellow
> rock "Piotr" to the Gift of God "Fyodr", but isn't Theodoros with a
> /t/ in Polish?, as Tadeusz for Thaddeus

Yes, as in Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski (a.k.a. Joseph Conrad). But
I think Torsten (whose name, with its t-r-s, is surely Etruscan) meant
something like OIc. fjödr.

Piotr