About the work

A closer look.

Send me one name, your own or one you are curious about, and I trace it as far back as the sources hold: the earliest written forms I can find, what it meant, the language beneath it, and the place or person it stuck to. You get a short written study with a named source for each point, and an honest line for what could not be settled. One revision included. If a name cannot be grounded in a real source, I say so and nothing is charged. I am an iLander; the reading is mine.