Surnames as a Science

Chapter IV.

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[4] So that we may take it that Virgilius, as the name of a Scot who became bishop of Salzburg in the time of Boniface, was his own genuine Celtic name, and not derived from that of the Roman poet.

[5] This name, that of a prince of the Batavi, is considered by the Germans to be properly Hariovalda, from _har_, army, and hence is another instance of an initial _h_ being represented among the Romans by a _c_. The name is the same as the Anglo-Saxon Harald, and as our present name _Harold_.

[6] For this explanation of _vertragus_ I am indebted to Gluck.

[7] There was an English admiral of this name, though I do not know of it at present.