Alfgeir written in runes
Alfgeir written in Viking Age runes (Group A)

Description

Group A runes were most common in Viking Age Denmark

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Alfgeir

Old Norse Álfgeirr (m.)

Álfgeirr was not a common name in Viking Age Scandinavia, but it is attested in all of the Scandinavian countries and Iceland. The personal name was once found as the first element of the place-name Algarthorpe, Nottinghamshire; however, the village is now deserted.

The name is an Old Norse compound formed from Álf-, identical with alfr ‘elf’, which is not particularly popular in Scandinavian names, and  –geirr, ‘spear’ which is a common element in Old Norse personal names.

 

Old Norse Name

Álfgeirr

Anglicised Name

Alfgeir

Gender

Male

Features in Saga

Íslendingabók. Landnámabók, ed. Jakob Benediktsson. Íslenzk fornrit I. Reykjavík: Hið íslenzka fornritafélag, 1968, chs 79, 192.

Eyrbyggja saga. ed. Einar Ól. Sveinsson and Matthías Þórðarson. Íslenzk fornrit IV. Reykjavík: Hið íslenzka fornritafélag, 1935, chs 17-21, 24.

 

Ascribed Culture

Collection

Viking Names

Keywords

male_name, personal-name

Further information

References

Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Settlement Names in the East Midlands. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag (1978), pp. 6-7, 342.

E.H. Lind, Norsk-isländska dopnamn ock fingerade namn från medeltiden. Supplementband. Oslo: Jacob Dybwads Bokhandel (1931), col. 1.

E.H. Lind, Norsk-isländska dopnamn ock fingerade namn från medeltiden. Uppsala: A.B. Lundequistska Bokhandel (1915), col. 12-13.

 

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