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Berthold
Berthold Berthold carries a medieval German scholastic and clerical quality — it is a name found in monastery scriptoria and university faculties as well as in the halls of the Holy Roman Empire. Characters named Berthold tend to be learned, deliberate, and intellectually principled, suited to historical fiction set in medieval Germany or Austria, or to fantasy worlds modelled on that tradition.
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