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So these rhyming things go on and on round and round in my head for years and years and I come up with some interesting connections so Venestran seems sort of like Fenetra which is a window in French (one of the first and also one of the only things I learned taking 4 years of French classes was "Ferme la fenetra" which means "Close the window"
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And then there was this book called Looking at Ocean or something like that and translated to French it was something like "Window to Ocean" and there is a town in France near the coast of Brittany called Fenetra or Fenestra...
I kept thinking I might want to go live there someday...
I met my future husband and we talked about where we might want to live if we went across the sea and thought about maybe Ireland or maybe France...
And I kept thinking of that town in France...
I also did (and knew quite a bit about) genealogy and I am a big part Irish and also a big part French. I'm partly Cornish too and my husband is part Irish also. I told him that I also thought that he was a lot Welsh (and we found out later that is true as well and so am I too)...
So I kept thinking about Fenestra as I said and then lo and behold we came across his great grandpa with the middle name (often a last name in disguise) of Venestran and I kept thinking about that name and a little bit later we came across another of his grandparents with the last name of Vanorstrand (or rather Van Ordstrand) and there is an island off the coast of Norway called that so...AH HA!!!
I shouted out to him ~ hey I know what that means that's a WINDOW to OCEAN!!!
I've got it - I know what it means - whoo hoo!
I shouted again to him ~ I know what Vanestran means - Yay!!!
So anyway maybe this is a good story...
And Ceasarian and Fenetra mean an opening / a cut open to make a window...
- and Van Ordstrand island was CUT OFF from Norway a big something happened and it literally FELL off into the ocean...
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