In habitatione mea, qua utebar ex concessione Martini Bacchatii, rectoris academiae Carolinae, pendebat ad parietem charta geographica Europa pervetus, im qua vocabulum Fiolx Islandiae locis adscriptum erat. Id quicquid sonaret, placuit mihi truci sono, addidique usitatum feminis in veteri lingua vocabulum Hildis; unde Brunhildis, Mathildis, Hildegard, Hiltrud et similia

In my house, which I used by the permission of Martin Bachackzek, rector of Charles University, hung on the wall an old map of Europe, on which the word Fiolx was marked [beside] parts of Iceland. Whatever it [meant], I was pleased with its grim sound, and I added Hilde, a common name for women in the ancient language, from where [the names] Brunhilde, Mathilda, Hildegard, Hiltrud and others [come].

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