Yolanda may be derived from the Greek ion i.e. violet en anthos which means flower. Violet flower. Violet is the most common explanation of this name. But it also has a quite different meaning.Yolanda has an old germanic form: Odelinde. Odelinde is derived from Od- Inheritance and Lind -snake (knower of secrets) '
Meaning
"I have been in many shapes
Before I took this congenial form;
I have been a sword, narrow in shape;
I believe, since it is apparent,
I have been a tear-drop in the sky,
I have been a glittering star,
I have been a word in a letter,
I have been a book in my origin,
I have been a gleaming ray of light,
A year and a half,
I have been a stable bridge
Over confluences of compassion,
I have been a pathway, I have been an eagle,
I have been a coracle on the brink,
I have been the direction of a staff,
I have been a stack in an open enclosure,
I have been a sword in a yielding cleft,
I have been a shield in open conflict,
I have been a string on a harp,
Shape-shifting nine years,
In water, in foam,
I have been consumed in fire,
I have been passion in a covert.
Am I not he who will sing
Of beauty in what is small;
Beauty in the Battle of the Tree-tops
Against the country of Prydein. "
Taliesin; Cad Godeu, 'The Battle of the Trees,'
Ego Sum
I am the lily of grace
I am the song of joy
I am the pearl of god
I am of victorious heart
I am the champion of life
I am the name that I am
(Siusaidh NicNeill)
Yolanda may be derived from the Greek ion i.e. violet en anthos which means flower. Violet flower. Violet is the most common explanation of this name. But it also has a quite different meaning.Yolanda has an old germanic form: Odelinde. Odelinde is derived from Od- Inheritance and Lind -snake (knower of secrets) '