NPPF (Comentary) Stillicide

[Arne Herl�v Petersen]

s~Z wrote:
> 
> "Hyde comes from the Anglo-Saxon HYD, which is Danish HIDE, "a haven." And
> Jekyll comes from the Danish name JOKULLE, which means "an icicle."    --V.
> Nabokov (from lecture on Dr. Jekyll/Hyde)


I wonder what kind of Danish Nabokov spoke. As a native Dane I am
mystified. There is no Danish word HIDE, meaning "a haven". 
HID means hither. Or would it be better to choose English HIDE (as:
skin), which is HUD in Danish?
JOKULL (not Jokulle) is not Danish, but Icelandic, and does not mean
"icicle" but "glacier".

Arne Herlov Petersen