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

Description

Group A runes were most common in Viking Age Denmark

Api written in Viking Age runes (Group A) Api written in Viking Age runes (Group B) Api written in medieval runes (Group C)

Api

Old Norse Api (m.)

Api is an original byname meaning ‘fool’. It is possibly found in the Norwegian place-name Apnes and there are a few instances in Old Danish, including perhaps, the runic forms abi and aba, although these forms may rather derive from Abbi or Æbbi.

It is the first element in Apedale, North Yorkshire and Apethorpe, West Yorkshire.

Old Norse Name

Api

Anglicised Name

Api

Gender

Male

Collection

Viking Names

Keywords

male_name, North_Yorkshire, personal-name, West_Yorkshire

Further information

References

Lena Peterson, Nordiskt runnamnslexikon: Femte, reviderade utgåvan. Uppsala: Institutet för språk och folkminnen (2007), p. 24.

Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag (1968), p. 10.

 

 

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