Talk:Brandt#Gaming binding DRV decisions

If you came here to add an entry for Daniel B., then please don't do it. Read the discussions in Talk:Brandt/Archive 1. His article was deleted and the deletion was reviewed and confirmed. Several times. Here you have links to all the deletion discussions. --Enric Naval (talk) 12:18, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

I looked in google books, and it looks like a English/Norsen surname:

• [http://books.google.es/books?id=zQPnB1IAjUsC "A dictionary of English and Welsh surnames"] says that it means "the son of Brand" and that it went out of use before the XIII century (p. 129).
• [http://books.google.es/books?id=uSAlLaV6JIEC "A World of Baby Names"] says it's a variation of "Brant", which derives "from the Old English brand (firebrand, sword) and the Norsen brandr (firebrand, sword)" (p. 30).
• [http://books.google.es/books?id=fPoujUPs3hYC "A dictionary of English surnames"] lists the variations Beand, Brandt, Brant, Braund, Brauns, Bront, says that it means "fireband, sword. Found also in Norway" (p. 61).

For the germanic origin, I can only find non-reliable websites[http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.fc/qx/brandt-family-crest.htm][http://german.about.com/library/blsurname01.htm].

Please kindly provide sources for the germanic origin instead of trying to edit war the "german surname" category into the article. --Enric Naval (talk) 23:19, 22 July 2010 (UTC)