Elvis

[Ward-Minter]

Did the name ELVIS exist before Elvis. Or did his folks make it up?

[Dingoeater]

Well, his father had the middle name Elvis so it wasn't his parent's doing. The name Elvis also turns up in records from the American Civil War, usually on the Confederate side, indeed one of the last survivors of the Civil War was one Elvis Howe.

[Octavius]

It might even have been an Anglo-Saxon name for 'noble friend'

[brachiopod]

Elvis is an old Celtic name, meaning "The Bard with the wobbly hips". The use of this name is first recorded in the fourth Century AD in the villages around the Preselli Hills in Pembrokeshire.

During this time, it was common for Bards to travel from village to village to perform songs and recite oral history and news.

The importance of these travelling performers declined with the arrival of the written word during the 5thC. AD, which meant that, for the first time, history was written down and the words of songs recorded. (Two of the "Great Poems" in Welsh History, Blw Sw�d Sws and Tedi Baerr are thought to date from this period).This marked a major transition in Celtic musical history, as things went from Bard to verse, however, an uprising led by Col. Twm Parcwr succesfully re-established the importance of the Bards.

[Clanad]

You're certainly in rare form today, brachiopod... much better mood, too, I see... spent some time alone contemplating the rocks?

[brachiopod]

Studying the interaction between Late Holocene Scrumpy Jack and the coastal exposures of Carboniferous limestone on the South Wales coast, in fact, Clanad ! (Well, more like lying on them in the sun, drinking cider, to be precise.)

[Azimov]

Perhaps infantile pointy ears and dyslexic parents had something to do with his naming!

Think about it!"