Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 13:30:36 -0800
From: kleber@math.berkeley.edu (Michael Kleber)
Message-Id: <199401212130.NAA11678@math.berkeley.edu>
To: carolingia@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
Subject: Re:  "Carolingia"

Okay, I stayed completely out of the principality discussion, and I'm
continuing to do so, but duty calls:

> Secundus, "Carolingia" as a place-name in the Current Middle Ages was, of 
> course, derived from the Charles River (see also "Duncharloch").

As ex-provost, I'd be horribly shirking my responnsibility if I didn't
interject here.  Well, yes, Duncharloch can kinda sorta be made into
Welsh for "fortress on the Charles"-- that'd be Mather house, where
Patri was a Harvard undergrad, etc-- *if* you speak Welsh really badly.
But to be quite frank (pun intended), it also ahs a bit to do with the
fact that our faculty sponsor at the time was one Charles Dunn.
At least, that's the way I heard it-- conflicting stories welcome.

--Gwydden "OSM" Lawen
  (Who, me?  Apprenticed to Mistress Historian/Librarian?   Gee, does it show?)