Scandinavian Personal Names in Norfolk: A Survey Based on Medieval Records and Place-Names

504 Pages·1994·22.012 MB·Swedish

by  John Insley

ACTA ACADEMIAE REGIAE GUSTA VI ADOLPHI
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ACTA ACADEMIAE REGIAE GUSTAV! ADOLPHI LXII
Scandinavian Personal
Names in Norfolk
A Survey Based on
Medieval Records and Place-N ames
BY
JOHNINSLEY
UPPSALA 1994
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Abstract
lnsley, John, 1994: Scandinavian Personal Names in No,folk. A Survey Based on Medieval
Records and Place-Names. Acta Academiae Regiae Gustavi Adolphi 62. xliii + 455 pp. Uppsala.
ISBN 91-85352-26-8.
The present work is a survey of the Scandinavian personal names found in medieval records and
as the first elements of place-names in Norfolk. The period covered extends from the tenth to the
mid-thirteenth century. A wide range of published and unpublished sources has been excerpted. A
brief introduction is followed by a comprehensive bibliography and by a corpus of name-forms.
Each entry in the corpus is accompanied by a full commentary with bibliographical information
and comparative material from elsewhere in England.
The material is an important primary source for any discussion of the Scandinavian settlement
of East Anglia, and it allows comparisons to be made with the other areas of Scandinavian settle
ment in England.
ISSN 0065-0897
ISBN 91-85352-26-8
© John Insley and the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy 1994
Printed in Sweden
Textgruppen i Uppsala AB, 1994
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements ............................................................................... vii
Bibliography and Abbreviations ... .. .. . ........... ......... ....... ..... .... ... .. . .... .. ... IX
Introduction .. . . . . .. . . .. .. . . . .. . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . . . .. . .. . . . . .. . .. .. . . . .. .. . . . . . . .. . . .. . .. . . . . .. . . . . . .. . xxxiii
Arrangement of the Material................................................................. xlii
The Material.......................................................................................... 1
Appendix............................................................................................... 447

Acknowl edgements
This book has been a long time in the making, and I have been the recipient of
many kindnesses along the way. I hope that my placing of the completed text
at the disposal of scholarship will go some way towards repaying the debts I
have incurred over the years. It is based on my University of Nottingham
Ph.D. thesis of 1980, and it is fitting that I should first thank my former super
visor, Professor Kenneth Cameron, for his support and encouragement in the
years when this work was being written. He has proved a true friend, and he
has shared his incomparable knowledge of the toponymy of the Danelaw and
its source materials with me unstintingly. With characteristic generosity, he
placed the personal name collections of the late Sir Frank Stenton, left to him
by Lady Stenton, and the Norfolk collections ofthe late O.K. Schram, then de
posited with the English Place-Name Society in Nottingham, at my disposal.
I am also indebted to the late Dr Olof von Feilitzen of the Royal Library in
Stockholm, from whose publications I leamt much, and who untiringly helped
me with my queries about personal nomenclature when I was a young and in
experienced research student in the early seventies.
For copies of their publications, I owe thanks to the late Cecily Clark, Dr
Gillian Fellows-Jensen, Mr Peter McClure, Mr Richard McKinley, Dr Bo
Selten, Dr Karl Inge Sandred and the late Professor Erik Tengstrand. The dis
cussions I had with Cecily Clark and Peter McClure in the latter stages of the
completion of the original thesis were especially fruitful, and I owe both of
them a good deal.
My particular thanks are due to Dr Sandred. Our first contact was at Not
tingham <luring the academic session 1971-72 when he held a post in the Eng
lish Department as Leverhulme European Visiting Fellow. He has played a
crucial role in bringing the present work into print. Not only has he devoted
much time to the technicalities of preparing the manuscript for publication,
but he was also, along with Professors Thorsten Andersson, Lennart Elmevik
and Lars Hellberg, instrumental in securing its acceptance by the Royal Gusta
vus Adolphus Academy. I am grateful to the Academy and its Secretary, Pro
fessor Elmevik, for accepting it in its series of Acta publications.
I also wish to record my indebtedness and thanks to my wife, Monika
Insley-Sauter, without whose help and support in difficult times the thesis
upon which the present work is based would never have been finished.
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Thanks are also due to the libraries which facilitated the work on this book.
The British Library and the Public Record Office in London, the Bodleian
Library in Oxford and the Cambridge University Library supplied me with
microfilms of unpublished texts, and Nottingham University Library and the
Cambridge University Library provided me with secondary literature. Much
ofthe work was written in Germany, and I am grateful to the university librar
ies of Erlangen-Niirnberg, Heidelberg and Wtirzburg for their generous bor
rowing facilities and the helpfulness of their staffs.
Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld JOHNlNSLEY
August 1994
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