Six degrees my ass!

[muckefuck]

So I was reading through a list of SCA name precedents (what, is that snickering I hear? Woe betide you should you ever come within range of my home-built trebuchet!) whereby I learned that not only is "Gwendolyn" a very recent name, but it actually stems from a misreading of a man's name by Geoffrey of Monmouth. The original form is Guendoleu with a final u; anyone who's ever seen a mediaeval manuscript can readily appreciate how this could be misread as n.

I was curious if the name had been revived, so I did a search on what I thought would be the modern Welsh form, Gwendolau. [Turns out I'm off by a letter; it's Gwenddolau.] I didn't get any Welshmen or references to ancient Brittanic history. Instead, I found a suit of pages, including a chat page, maintained by a Quebecois cub who goes by "Gwendolau". I'm beginning to suspect that the degree of separation between any topic under the sun and Beardom is rapidly approaching singularity.