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=Basic Information:= | =Basic Information:= | ||
Includes "Old English" names. | Includes "Old English" names. | ||
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=Sources:= | =Sources:= | ||
English Name Articles at Academy of St. Gabriel "Medieval Names Archive" - http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/english.shtml <br> | |||
Archive of St. Gabriel reports - http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/archive.cgi <br> | Archive of St. Gabriel reports - http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/archive.cgi <br> | ||
Database of medieval names (from the Medieval Names Archive) - http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/database/ | Database of medieval names (from the Medieval Names Archive) - http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/database/ | ||
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IGI [[Searches]], batches beginning with C, J, K, M (except M17 and M18), or P are acceptable - http://familysearch.org | IGI [[Searches]], batches beginning with C, J, K, M (except M17 and M18), or P are acceptable - http://familysearch.org | ||
''Old English/Anglo-Saxon'' on Omniglot - http://www.omniglot.com/writing/oldenglish.htm <br> | ''Old English/Anglo-Saxon'' on Omniglot - http://www.omniglot.com/writing/oldenglish.htm <br> | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_runes Anglo-Saxon runes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia] | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_runes Anglo-Saxon runes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia] | ||
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''Anglo-Norman Dictionary'' (at the Anglo-Norman Hub) - http://www.anglo-norman.net/ | ''Anglo-Norman Dictionary'' (at the Anglo-Norman Hub) - http://www.anglo-norman.net/ | ||
''The Domesday Book Online'' - Home - http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/<br> | ''The Domesday Book Online'' - Home - http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/<br> | ||
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''Open Domesday'' (map): http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/ The names are normalised, but each one will take you to an image of the place(s) in the manuscript where it appears. | ''Open Domesday'' (map): http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/ The names are normalised, but each one will take you to an image of the place(s) in the manuscript where it appears. | ||
''' ' | ''Old English Bynames'' (G. Tengvik, Uppsala, 1938) | ||
Anglo-Saxon | ''The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)'' - http://www.pase.ac.uk/index.html - searchable database of Anglo-Saxon names. Use % as the wildcard symbol. | ||
''Some Old English Occupational Bynames'' - http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/Stars/OE_Occupational_Bynames.htm | ''Some Old English Occupational Bynames'' - http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/Stars/OE_Occupational_Bynames.htm | ||
''The First Thousand Years of British Names'' - http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/british1000/ | |||
=Appendix A: Patterns That Do Not Need Further Documentation by Language Group= | =Appendix A: Patterns That Do Not Need Further Documentation by Language Group= | ||
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| '''Dictus''' || '''Double Bynames''' || '''Order''' | | '''Dictus''' || '''Double Bynames''' || '''Order''' | ||
|- | |- | ||
| '''Old English''' || No || Phrase ('' | | '''Old English''' || No || Phrase (''æX'' or ''of'' X) || Marked, unmarked || || Rare || Yes; using ''Cognomento'' || || given+byname | ||
|} | |} | ||
'''Notes''':<br> | '''Notes''':<br> | ||
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'''Collected Precedents of the SCA: Anglo-Saxon/Old English -''' http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/AngloSaxonOldEnglish.html | '''Collected Precedents of the SCA: Anglo-Saxon/Old English -''' http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/AngloSaxonOldEnglish.html | ||
=='''August 2008 Cover Letter:'''== | =='''August 2008 Cover Letter:'''== | ||
'''From Pelican: On Documenting Names from Searle, ''Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum''''' | '''From Pelican: On Documenting Names from Searle, ''Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum''''' | ||
We regularly see names which are documented from Searle, ''Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum''. The book was intended to be a collection of attested Old English names. However, in the 100 years since its publication, the standards of scholarship have changed, which means that the book is less reliable than more recent works and that it should be used with great care. Many submitters and heralds do not know the problematic aspects of this book, so we are outlining the major ones here. | We regularly see names which are documented from Searle, ''Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum''. The book was intended to be a collection of attested Old English names. However, in the 100 years since its publication, the standards of scholarship have changed, which means that the book is less reliable than more recent works and that it should be used with great care. Many submitters and heralds do not know the problematic aspects of this book, so we are outlining the major ones here. | ||
First, all of the headwords that Searle uses have been standardized to a normalized Old English form. As he says on p. viii of the introduction, "The names, whether Northumbrian, Mercian, West Saxon, or Kentish, have been arranged according to the West Saxon spelling as given in Sweet's Glossary to his Oldest English Text". Sometimes these normalized forms are identical with the documentary forms (that is, the forms as they are found in actual documents), but in general there is no way to tell whether this is the case from the entry alone. The only forms that can safely be assumed to be documentary are the secondary headwords. | |||
Second, and connected to the first issue, Searle included many non-Old English names, including Continental Germanic and Old Norse names that were found in the English documents that he was using as sources, even when the bearer is known not to have been English. For instance, he lists the Continental Germanic masculine name ''Ebroin'' as an instance of its Old English cognate ''Eoforwine''. However, the fact that ''Ebroin'' was used in the 7th C does not mean that its Old English cognate ''Eoforwine'' was also used at that time. In fact, in some cases the Old English cognate name is not attested at all. | |||
Third, Searle gives many variant spellings of the individual themes, and these variant spellings should be used with care. Some of the variants that he lists are very rare, perhaps even scribal errors. Some of the variants he may have misidentified; for example, he lists ''bren-'' as a variant spelling of the theme ''beorn-'', but none of the commenters were able to find any examples of a name using the theme ''beorn-'' where the theme was spelled ''bren-'' (Brinwen the Fair, LoAR 05/2008, East-A, q.v.). Furthermore, some variant spellings are the result of different orthographic practices in different dialects, which means that some particular prototheme variant may not be compatible with a particular deuterotheme variant even if both are individually unexceptionable. The variant spellings of themes that Searle gives may only be used if it is demonstrated that they were both used in names which are temporally and dialectically compatible. | |||
Given these issues, Searle in general should not be relied upon as the sole source of documentation for an Old English name. Whenever possible, any entry in his book should be corroborated with information from another source, such as Tengvik, ''Old English Bynames''; the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England; or Sean Miller's database of Anglo-Saxon charters. | |||
http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2008/08/08-08cl.html | http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2008/08/08-08cl.html | ||
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