[HPforGrownups] Re: Godric Gryffindor from Shropshire?

[Maria Gromova]

No: HPFGUIDX 54122

Pip wrote:
>Incidentally, is he supposed to be 'Gryffindor' or 'Gryffin d'Or'?
>My CSE French (failed) would make this Godric of the Gold Gryffin.
>

That's right. In French Gryffindor would be 'gold gryffin'. And the arms of
the House he founded is a gold lion, a lion or in the language of heraldry.
A gryffin has a body of a lion, as far as I know. But then I have a
thought - could it be French back then? Maybe, it is one of the Celtic
languages? Gold is 'or' in Gaelic, at least. What do you think?
Maria.