Rowena

English <dab!> Etymology From the name of the daughter of Hengist and wife of Vortigern in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12th century pseudohistorical Latin work Historia regum Britanniae. There have been attempts to connect it to some unattested ang - or Common Brittonic name, but without any real evidence. It was revived after Walter Scott used it in his novel Ivanhoe (1819). Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: A Concise Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press 2001. Some places are named after Lady Rowena in the novel. Proper noun en female Germanic languages. en number of places c/USA: en ucomm co/Early County s/Georgia. en ucomm co/Russell County s/Kentucky. en ucomm co/Redwood County s/Minnesota. en ucomm co/Audrain County s/Missouri. en CDP co/Wasco County s/Oregon. en ucomm/and/CDP co/Minnehaha County s/South Dakota. en ucomm co/Runnels County s/Texas. en community p/New Brunswick c/Canada. en town shire:Suf/Walgett s/New South Wales c/Australia. References Anagrams en aenorw wear on Cebuano Etymology ceb :der en:Rowena<ety:uder<osx:-<ety:uder<<unc>><gem-pro:*Hrōþiwunjō>>>> 3 1 Proper noun ceb proper noun ceb female Germanic languages Quotations ceb ceb female given names from Old Saxon female given names from English