Lenore

Lenore is an English and German literary form of Eleanor, which itself traces back through Old French Aliénor to a Provençal or possibly Germanic root, with meanings variously interpreted as "the other Aïenor," a family name, or related to the Germanic element alja meaning "other." The name gained wide cultural prominence through Gottfried August Bürger's 1773 German ballad Lenore, which told a Gothic tale of a ghost rider, and was later immortalized in English literary consciousness through Edgar Allan Poe's 1831 poem and his 1845 poem The Raven, in which Lenore is the narrator's lost beloved. Related forms include Leonora, Eleonora, Nora, and Nell.