*in small text because she's interrupting a conversation* ... you know, miss soujin, i just checked shaksper.net for five seconds, because i'm supposed to be reading heart of darkness right now, really, i am, and ...
Though Rosencrantz and Guildenstern may have Jewish connotations and be Jewish names too, they are similarly Renaissance Danish nobly names in the following spellings 'Rosenkrands' and 'Gyldenstjerne', meaning, as is easily guessed 'a wreath of roses' and 'golden star'... Many nobility names including gylden i.e. golden would imply a name given to an illegitimate royal male child. Thus the name Gyldenløve (Golden Lion)figures next to Gyldenstjerne in the Danish calendar of nobility, Gyldenløve being a recognised (bastard) side line of the royal Danish family.
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Though Rosencrantz and Guildenstern may have Jewish connotations and be Jewish names too, they are similarly Renaissance Danish nobly names in the following spellings 'Rosenkrands' and 'Gyldenstjerne', meaning, as is easily guessed 'a wreath of roses' and 'golden star'... Many nobility names including gylden i.e. golden would imply a name given to an illegitimate royal male child. Thus the name Gyldenløve (Golden Lion)figures next to Gyldenstjerne in the Danish calendar of nobility, Gyldenløve being a recognised (bastard) side line of the royal Danish family.
... did you know that? i didn't know that.