(urth) Ormsby
Kieran Mullen
kieran at ou.edu
Thu Jan 13 15:15:32 PST 2005
I put this on the FrequentlyAskedQuestions page at the WolfeWiki
(http://www.nhn.ou.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~kieran/wiki/wolfe?FrontPage):
What is the significance of the name "Arthur Ormsby"?
◦ "Orm" is an old scandanavian word for "elm tree", while "orme" is
an old word for "dragon". One possibility is that "Ormsby" then is some
translation of "Pendragon". FWIW, the story of Orm, one of the first
rulers of the Vikings who landed in Scotland, is as follows: The king
promised that the first man to lay foot on the soil would be the ruler
of the conquered land. Young Orm lost his leg in a sea battle with the
Scots. He tied up his stump and survived. On arrival to the shore he
threw his leg on to land, thus being the "first to set foot". All of
this is gleaned from http://www.ormsby.org/genie/Surname.html (Kieran
Mullen)
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