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

Description

Group A runes were most common in Viking Age Denmark

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

Asa

Old Norse Ása (f.)

Ása was a common name throughout Scandinavia, including quite a few examples in Swedish and Danish runic inscriptions, but used fairly sparingly in Iceland. There are three examples in Domesday Book for Yorkshire.

It is a short form for Old Norse names in Ás- from  áss, óss ‘a god’.

 

 

Old Norse Name

Ása

Anglicised Name

Asa

Gender

Female

Ascribed Culture

Collection

Viking Names

Keywords

female_name, personal-name

Further information

References

Lena Peterson, Nordiskt runnamnslexikon: Femte, reviderade utgåvan. Uppsala: Institutet för språk och folkminnen (2007), p. 28.

Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag (1968), pp. 18, 342.

E.H. Lind, Norsk-isländska dopnamn ock fingerade namn från medeltiden. Uppsala: A.B. Lundequistska Bokhandel (1915), col. 60-62.

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