This article marks the first time I have seen the theory that the Franks' name is in any way etymologically to be linked to the term ferocious - my immediate gut-think is that it would be the other way around. The commonest etymology I ran across in my reasearch years (there were three and some change) is that the name derives from the francisca, the distinctive ax they carried. The second-commonest theory was that both the ax's name and the people's rooted in a word meaning freedom, liberty.
For the overall nutshell picture, though, it's a pretty good article.
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I always feel like I'm reading children's books when I go in for nutshells on Clovis. Nothing against children's books at all, of course. But I did get a bit beyond 'em some time back - as with research on the Man Himself.
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