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Subject: Re: Which Agatha?
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 08:01:45 EST


In a message dated 12/1/00 1:08:08 AM, writes:

<< 4. The names Agatha, Margaret, Christina, Alexander and David,
appearing among Agatha's immediate descendants, are consistant
with the Russian naming practices, and their prefered saints.

5. Contemporary church art appears to prove that Jaroslav I had
more daughters than those that have been identified to date,
putting Agatha's placement there into a favorable light. (This
cannot be said of the other prefered candidate, the extent of
whose family is entirely unknown.)

In all, he improved the argument first put forward by Jette, but
it is far from a done deal. >>

Not a bad summary, but I thought his argument was a bit more convinving than
you did. I thought the onomastic evidence was the strongest. There was one
weak point in Jette and Ingham's argument dealing St Margaret and her lack of
knowledge of her origins. I cannot for the life of me figure out why she did
not know and relate who Agatha was.

- Ken

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