Isolde (given name)

Isolde
Malvina Garrigues, Portuguese operatic soprano and first person in the role of Isolde in Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (1865)
Pronunciation/ˌɪˈzɒldəˌɪˈsɒldə/
GenderFemale
Language(s)German
Name day23 August (Germany)[1]
Origin
Meaningīs ("ice") hiltja ("battle").
Other names
Variant form(s)Iseult, Yseult, Ysolt, Isode, Isoude, Iseut, Iosóid, Esyllt, Isola, Isolda, Isotta, Izolda
DerivedOld High German or Brythonic

Isolde is a German feminine given name derived from either the Old High German words īs ("ice") and hiltja ("battle"), [2] or the Brythonic adsiltia ("she who is gazed upon").[3] The name was further popularized in Germany and German-speaking countries following the opera Tristan und Isolde composed by Richard Wagner between 1857 and 1859, and based on the 12th-century chivalric romance Tristan and Iseult.[4] Wagner subsequently had a daughter in 1865, who was named Isolde von Bülow.[5]

People bearing the name Isolde include:

  1. ^ "Germany Name Day". NameDayCalendar. 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  2. ^ Mackensen, Lutz (27 June 1988). Das grosse Buch der Vornamen: Herkunft, Ableitungen und Verbreitung, Koseformen, berühmte Namensträger, Gedenk- und Namenstage, verklungene Vornamen. Ullstein. ISBN 9783548344256 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Bromwich, Rachel (November 15, 2014). Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of Britain. University of Wales Press. ISBN 9781783161478 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ May, Thomas (2004). Decoding Wagner. Pompton Plains, New Jersey: Amadeus Press. ISBN 978-1-57467-097-4.
  5. ^ "Exklusiv-Interview: die unbekannte Wagner-Urenkelin" (in German). inFranken.de. 8 August 2012. Retrieved 12 October 2020.