Talk:Patrick Padraig

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Weird question, but where does the name "Padraig" actually originate, and is there a reason it's so phonetically close to his first name?

-- Arancaytar | Send Reply! --- That is not dead which can eternal lie... 03:22, 21 March 2007 (PDT)

Padraig is the Gaelic counterpart to Patrick; the net seems to think they both dervied from the Latin, Patricius. "Patrick Padraig" appears at once in E/A 1 and three times in A4, so it's safely canon. --- Slarty 05:49, 21 March 2007 (PDT)

So it's a bit as if he were called Tim Timotheus? Well, I guess that's not so weird. It smacks of the Nordic practice of "Peter Peterson", etc. -- Arancaytar | Send Reply! --- That is not dead which can eternal lie... 07:58, 21 March 2007 (PDT)