Hart (deer) Hart (deer) Hart is an archaic word for "stag" (from Old English "heorot", "deer" – compare with modern Dutch "hert", medieval French "hart", German "Hirsch" and Swedish/Norwegian/Danish "hjort", also "deer"). Specifically, "hart" was used in medieval times to describe a red deer stag more than five years old. In medieval hunting terms, a stag in its first year was called a "calf" or "calfe", in its second a "brocket", in its third a "spayed", "spade", or "spayard", in its fourth a "staggerd" or "staggard", and in its fifth a "stag", or a "great stag". To be a "hart" was its
Erika (given name) Erika (given name) The given name Erika, or Erica, is a feminine form of Eric, deriving from the Old Norse name "Eiríkr" (or "Eríkr" in Eastern Scandinavia due to monophthongization). The first element, "ei-" is derived either from the older Proto-Norse "*aina(z)", meaning "one, alone, unique", as in the form "Æinrikr" explicitly, or from "*aiwa(z)" "long time, eternity". The second element "-ríkr" stems either from "*ríks" "king, ruler" (cf. Gothic "reiks") or from the therefrom derived "*ríkijaz" "kingly, powerful, rich". The name is thus usually taken to mean "sole ruler, autocrat" or "eternal ruler, ever powerful". It is a common