Ludo Bagman's name

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 682

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Jim Hohman" <jickndim at g...> wrote:
> Ludo suggests to me Luddite or ludicrous.

'Ludicrous' is from the Latin 'ludo', 'game' or 'play'. Luddite, a 
person who opposes new technology, is named after some weavers who 
were put out of work by automated looms in the Industrial 
Revolution, and responded by the destroying the automated looms. It 
was a labor action. People said that the saboteurs ('sabotage' is 
named after 'sabot', French for a wooden clog shoe, meaning to 
destroy machinery by throwing a wood shoe into it, which was a 
similar labor action) were followers of one Ned Ludd or Captain Nudd.
There is no evidence that any such person ever existed, but I find it 
interesting that LLUDD Llawarent (Silverhand) was the name of Welsh 
(i.e. British) kind of the gods. You'll find him in the Mabinogion, 
and his name is related to Nudd as in Gwyn ap Nudd king of fairies, 
Nuadhu Argetlam (Silverhand) of the Irish myths, and Nodens of Gaul.