[SunkenCiv]

Athe is a Saxon first name, like Aethelstan and Ethelred.

In Search of Aethelstan (pts 1 thr 6)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCsXLdytwj8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhZPeM8cjNU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apAoRnAMiN4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdYtYZ4DePg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbpG_fkMTnU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoPqV0n4fz8

[proxy_user]

‘Aethel’ is simply an Anglo-Saxon word meaning noble or glorious. It is a common element in Germanic first names for obvious reasons. The modern German cognate is ‘edel’.