Jurand – male Slavonic (Polish)

name A name is a term used for identification by an external observer. They can identify a class or category of things, or a single thing, either uniquely, or within a given context. The entity identified by a name is called its referent. A personal ...

. Its current form is the result of an error - a misinterpretation of the well-known Polish name Jarand, a form of the name

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, taken by

Henryk Sienkiewicz Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz ( , ; 5 May 1846 – 15 November 1916), also known by the pseudonym Litwos (), was a Polish writer, novelist, journalist and Nobel Prize laureate. He is best remembered for his historical novels, especi ...

from Middle Ages Polish texts for a character in his book,

The Knights of the Cross ''The Knights of the Cross'' or ''The Teutonic Knights'' ( pl, Krzyżacy) is a 1900 historical novel written by the Polish Positivist writer and the 1905 Nobel laureate, Henryk Sienkiewicz. Its first English translation was published in the same ...

. The book has enjoyed massive popularity at the turn of 19th century, becoming a mandatory part of school curriculum. Yet despite near-universal familiarity, the name sees only very limited use as a given name. The name day for Jurand is May 6.Henryk Fros, Franciszek Sowa, ''Księga imion i świętych'', t. 6, Kraków 2007,

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