Roselinde is a variant of Rosalind. Rosalind has been associated with German and English naming traditions. The precise derivation is uncertain.
Explained through its name family
The story
Roselinde is a variant of Rosalind. The history of Rosalind gives this family its wider story. Edmund Spenser used Rosalind for a shepherdess, and Shakespeare gave it to the heroine of As You Like It. The appealing rose association is a later reinterpretation of an older Germanic name, rather than its original formation.