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The name '''Grimslade''' is modernized from [[Old English]] ''Grimslaed'' representing [[Rohirric]].<ref name="RC">[[Wayne G. Hammond]] and [[Christina Scull]], ''[[The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion]]'', p. 571</ref> | The name '''Grimslade''' is modernized from [[Old English]] ''Grimslaed'' representing [[Rohan language|Rohirric]].<ref name="RC">[[Wayne G. Hammond]] and [[Christina Scull]], ''[[The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion]]'', p. 571</ref> | ||
It comes from ''[[Grim]]'', which Tolkien describes as "evidently the name of an ancestor", and ''slade'', "forest glade, dell on the slope of a hillside" widely used in English place-names.<ref name="Nomen">{{HM|N}}, p. 771</ref> | It comes from ''[[Grim]]'', which Tolkien describes as "evidently the name of an ancestor", and ''slade'', "forest glade, dell on the slope of a hillside" widely used in English place-names.<ref name="Nomen">{{HM|N}}, p. 771</ref> | ||
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Grimslade was the ancestral home of Grimbold, a lesser Marshal of the Mark. Nothing is known of the location of this structure other that it stood in the Westfold of Rohan.[1] The word "slade" seems to imply that the house was either in a clearing or on a hillside.
Etymology
The name Grimslade is modernized from Old English Grimslaed representing Rohirric.[2]
It comes from Grim, which Tolkien describes as "evidently the name of an ancestor", and slade, "forest glade, dell on the slope of a hillside" widely used in English place-names.[3]
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "The Battle of the Pelennor Fields"
- ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, p. 571
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings" in Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (eds), The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, p. 771
