From the Old German, meaning 'grey battle' or 'Christian battle'. Gray; gray-haired. Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio's used the name for an exceptionally patient wife - thus the expression 'patience of Griselda. Gray haired heroine.
Gray; gray-haired. Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio's used the name for an exceptionally patient fictional wife - thus the expression 'patience of Griselda. Gray; gray-haired.