saturday, april 21, 2007
I like my name
At a family day at the old Getty museum (pre-1997), a person wrote “Britta” in Persian for me:
This name originated as a nickname for Birgitta, a popular Swedish saint. She is also known as Bridgid and Bridget, which are variations of the name of the Irish triple-goddess Brigid (or Brigit/Brighit), meaning exalted one, who was the goddess of poetry, fire, wisdom, etc., equivalent to Minerva and Athena, and the daughter of an all-powerful harpist god. All of this is nice, but I usually forget to celebrate my name day on October 7th.
comments (3)
Your name day is my birth day.
– Erin Hickey on 4/23/2007 14:33:02
omg! you saved that!!! i always thought it was beautiful and i thought it deserved a permanent home before the script (arabic, not persian?) melted away forever.
– sarah on 4/27/2007 12:07:48
yeah, it hasn't faded too much! lizzy got one too, but i don't know whether she still has it. is it arabic? persian script looks similar to arabic, and i thought i remembered it being persian...
– britta on 4/27/2007 13:37:41
comments are off. for new comments, my email address is brittag@gmail.com.
