Hart (deer) "As pants the hart for cooling streams" for its common meter (CM) rendering of the Psalm 42 text. 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"
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