英语词汇maidenhead的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Maidenhead. Legend has it that the English town of Maiden- head is so named because the severed head of one of 11,000 virgins martyred in Cologne, Germany is buried there. Actual- ly, only one virgin, known as Undecemilla, was beheaded in Cologne centuries ago and later elevated to sainthood. But in transcribing her saint’s day to the Roman Catholic Church cal- endar a scribe erred, indicating in shorthand Latin that on her day, Undecem militia Virg. Mart., “eleven thousands of virgins were martyred.” And not even Undecemilla is buried in Maid- enhead. She has nothing to do with the town’s name, which is a corruption of the town’s older name, Maydenhythe, a “dock midway” between two other towns.

词汇	maidenhead
词源	Maidenhead. Legend has it that the English town of Maiden- head is so named because the severed head of one of 11,000 virgins martyred in Cologne, Germany is buried there. Actual- ly, only one virgin, known as Undecemilla, was beheaded in Cologne centuries ago and later elevated to sainthood. But in transcribing her saint’s day to the Roman Catholic Church cal- endar a scribe erred, indicating in shorthand Latin that on her day, Undecem militia Virg. Mart., “eleven thousands of virgins were martyred.” And not even Undecemilla is buried in Maid- enhead. She has nothing to do with the town’s name, which is a corruption of the town’s older name, Maydenhythe, a “dock midway” between two other towns.
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