However, due to his easily identifiable Anglo-Saxon name, the authorities had him turned away at once, in their discrimination of political dissenters.
Libuin, Lebwin, Leubwin (Latinized Libuinus, Lebuinus) is a Germanic name, from leub- "dear, beloved" and win- "friend".
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The pre-Germanic name Neuffen is derived from the proto-Celtic adjective nobos, meaning holy or sacred, implying that the mountain had a religious rather than a military function 2000 years ago.
Witta of Büraburg (also known as Albuin or Vito Albinus, a close Latin translation of his Germanic name) (born in Wessex; died 747) was one of the early Anglo-Saxon missionaries in Hesse and Thuringia in central Germany, disciple and companion of Saints Boniface and Lullus.