Troubled Blood: The Cratylic Names

Has anyone looked into the names of the Athorns and people connected with them? I thought it was significant, the fact that their little extended family unit has these strange names. I did some googling but found no theme. “Samhain” is a Celtic winter festival, which happens on the same day as Halloween. “Gwilherm” is a Breton variant of “William”. “Tudor” is, well, an English royal house (the name is of Welsh derivation, it would appear). And for Athorn, I was able to find no hits whatsoever.

And Deborah is a Biblical name.

Do these names appear in The Faerie Queene? Or what other significance do they have?

 

Elisa Meschini, 7 January 2021

Samhain, Deborah, Gwilherm, and Tudor Athorn

‘Applethorpe’

Margot Bamborough

Sam Barclay

Janice Beattie

Joseph Brenner

Irene Bull-Hickson

Pat Chauncey

Gloria Conti/Mary Jaubert

Vi Cooper

Dennis Creed

Donna Alyrdice Diamond

Steve Douthwaite/Jacks/Diamond

‘Duckworth’

Prudence Dunleavey

Robin Ellacott

Betty Fuller

Peter Gillespie

Michelle Greenstreet

Nick and Ilsa Herbert

Oonaugh Kennedy

Saul Morris

Ted and Joan Nancarrow

Carl Bryce Oakden

Anna Phipps-Sullivan

Kim Sullivan-Phipps

Roy Phipps

Cynthia Phipps

Dave ‘Chum’ Polworth

Max Priestwood

Luca Ricci

Niccolo “Mucky” Ricci

Jonny Rokeby

Paul Satchwell

Cormoran Strike

Bill Talbot

Amanda White-Laws