Re: Iseut/Isolde etymology: Celtic?

From: Torsten
Message: 68369
Date: 2012-01-06

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
> Sorry about my garbled memory, it's been years since I'd read that. There should be some old posts on Tristrum and Isolde
> in the Cybalist archives --maybe about 8 or 10 years ago. I certainly remember putting my two cents in. Torsten is usually good at dredging up old posts. Now that I mention him, I wonder if Torsten is a Danish fold etymology for Tristen --you know, like Kristin becomes Kirstin ;p

It's not a common name here, so there's no tradition around it, it's more common in Sweden. And in Germany, after the war.


Torsten