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N R Scott


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Gild is said to be cognate with gold - as in to gild the lily, add gold to. So Gildas quite fittingly may mean embellisher.

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A similar name, (St) Eremengild/ Hermenegild, suggests brotherhood [hermano means brother in Spanish],

Gild also has the archaic meaning "to smear with blood", so Eremengild may mean blood brother. Maybe guilds were originally sealed with blood oaths?
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N R Scott wrote:
Gild also has the archaic meaning "to smear with blood", so Eremengild may mean blood brother. Maybe guilds were originally sealed with blood oaths?

Having a monopoly over writing may have been important enough to warrant such oaths. As long as monks were the only people who could write charters, they could fiddle the books.
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