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Poets: Anselm Berrigan
Anselm

Name origin: German

Name meaning: Deity

 
Berrigan

Name origin: Irish

Name meaning: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Beirgin or Ó Meirgin, a variant of Ó hAimheirgin ‘descendant of Aimheirgin’, a personal name in early Irish mythology and historical tales, perhaps composed of the elements amhra ‘wonderful’ + gin ‘birth’. (The Gaelic pronunciation would have an extra vowel between the r and the g, as shown in the Anglicized spelling.)

 
 
 
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