Letters to his mother, Ann Borrow

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Borrow George. Letters to his mother, Ann Borrow

Letter I. To Ann Borrow

Letter II. To A Correspondent

Letter III. To Mary Borrow

Letter IV. To Mary Borrow

Letter V. To Mary Borrow

Letter VI. To Mary Borrow

Letter VII. To Mary Borrow

Letter VIII. To Mary Borrow

Letter IX. To Mary Borrow

Letter X. To Mary Borrow

Letter XI. To Mary Borrow

Letter XII. To Mary Borrow

Letter XIII. To Mary Borrow

Letter XIV. To Mary Borrow

Letter XV. To Mrs. MacOubrey

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My Dear Sir,

Many thanks for your interesting and kind letter, in which you do me the honour to ask my opinion respecting the pedigree of your island goblin, le feu follet Belenger; that opinion I cheerfully give, with a promise that it is only an opinion; in hunting for the etymons of these fairy names we can scarcely expect to arrive at any thing like certainty.

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We want now to come at the meaning of Beling or Billing, which probably means some action, or some moral or personal attribute. Bolvile in Anglo-Saxon means honest, Danish Bollig; Wallen, in German, to wanken or move restlessly about; Baylan, in Spanish, to dance, connected with which are to whirl, to fling, and possibly Walloon and Fleming.

Belenger therefore may mean a Billiger or honest fellow, or it may mean a Walter-ger, a whirlenger, a flinger or something connected with restless motion.

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