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Steve Duncan writes:

>Far be it for me to question the learned Hossein, but I thought that
>the Latin form of Ludwig was Clovis. Had that changed by post classical
>times?  Assuming it still valid, then AElfgar, "Elf Spear", would then
>perhaps be "Elvis".

Feel free to question -- it's part of the price of being an academic.
However, Clovis is not an early medieval form: it's modern French.  The
early medieval form (e.g., in Gregory of Tours) is "Chlodovechus."  By
the mid-eighth century this had evolved to "Hlodovechus" and "Hludowechus,"
as well as some additional variant spellings (the principal dialect
differences were the value of the first vowel and the value of the v/w).
A quick consultation of the two volumes of the _Capitularia Regum Francorum_
(the MGH series) shows the development from actual texts.

AElfgar doesn't have the same evolution-sensitive phonemes which account 
for the West/East Frankish differences.

Hossein/Greg