Sineala has given me a good start on the Roman end, but I do like some of the options on your etymology site. I'd only turned up that Howard was Middle English in my first search, but hadn't found the Scandinavian roots.
'ewe-herder' isn't immediately pregnant with possibility
Not for this story, but I've already started toying with a short modern story where someone gets hold of a name book on a TT tour bus and a sheep shagger joke is made. (My muse is clearly insane.)
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Date: 2014-06-01 02:48 am (UTC)'ewe-herder' isn't immediately pregnant with possibility
Not for this story, but I've already started toying with a short modern story where someone gets hold of a name book on a TT tour bus and a sheep shagger joke is made. (My muse is clearly insane.)