Some Pre-Conquest English Masculine Names

by Sara L. Uckelman (Aryanhwy merch Catmael)

© 2004 Sara L. Uckelman; all rights reserved

WARNING! This is a draft article meant only for review by members of the Academy of S. Gabriel. Names have not been checked for typos. The arrangement of data has not been completed. The introduction has not been completed. You have been warned!

The following names have been extracted from the chapter "Christian Names Used as Bynames" in Gösta Tengvik's Old English Bynames. I have only taken names dated from before 1066 in Tengvik's chapter.

As is indicated by the title of the chapter from which these names are taken, half the names listed below were taken from patronymic bynames in the form name in genitive case + sunu/suna/sune 'son.' Tengvik gives, at the end of the discussion of these bynames, the standard scholarly forms of these names, as well as their language of origin. Thus, the names listed below are either listed in the form recorded in the book, or changed from the genitive case and listed in the standard nominative form. Some of the names as a whole were recorded in the genitive or dative cases. These names are followed by a *, (g), or (d), to note that this is not how they were found in the original sources that Tengvik used. Currently, names from non-nominative forms that do not have a nominative form listed yet are followed by **.

• Tengvik, Gösta. Old English Bynames.