Maud (name)
Maud or Maude (approximately pronounced "mawd" in English), is an Old German name meaning "powerful battler". It is a variant of the given name Matilda but is uncommon as a surname. The Welsh variant of this name is Mawd. The name's popularity in 19th-century England is associated with Alfred Tennyson's poem '' Maud''. People with the name include Royalty *Maud, 2nd Countess of Huntingdon (1074–1130), daughter of Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria and heir to his earldom of Huntingdon *Empress Matilda, (1102–1169), also known as "Mahaut", "Maud" or "Maude", daughter of King Henry I of England and mother to King Henry II of England * Princess Maud of Fife (1893–1945), member of the British Royal Family *Maud of Savoy (1125–1158), first Queen Consort of Portugal *Maud of Wales (1869–1938), also known as "Maud, Queen of Norway", a member of the British Royal Family Other *Maud Adams (born 1945), Swedish actress *Maud (fictional), supporting protagonist of the webcomic ' ...
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Old German
Old High German (OHG; german: Althochdeutsch (Ahd.)) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally covering the period from around 750 to 1050. There is no standardised or supra-regional form of German at this period, and Old High German is an umbrella term for the group of continental West Germanic dialects which underwent the set of consonantal changes called the Second Sound Shift. At the start of this period, the main dialect areas belonged to largely independent tribal kingdoms, but by 788 the conquests of Charlemagne had brought all OHG dialect areas into a single polity. The period also saw the development of a stable linguistic border between German and Gallo-Romance, later French. The surviving OHG texts were all written in monastic scriptoria and, as a result, the overwhelming majority of them are religious in nature or, when secular, belong to the Latinate literary culture of Christianity. The earliest written texts in Old High German, glosses and i ...
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