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

Description

Group A runes were most common in Viking Age Denmark

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

Auda

Old Norse Auða (f.)

A single instance of Auða is recorded in West Scandinavia (Norway and Iceland). It was unknown in Denmark but a few instances of Auða are recorded in Swedish runic inscriptions. The form Auda is recorded in a medieval Lincolnshire document.

Auða is a short form of Old Norse names in Auð-, an element which is obscure in origin but is perhaps auðr ‘wealth’ or from the stem in auðinn ‘that befalls one’ and jóð ‘new-born baby’.

Old Norse Name

Auða

Anglicised Name

Auda

Gender

Female

Ascribed Culture

Collection

Viking Names

Keywords

female_name, Lincolnshire, personal-name

Further information

References

Lena Peterson, Nordiskt runnamnslexikon: Femte, reviderade utgåvan. Uppsala: Institutet för språk och folkminnen (2007), p. 35.

Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag (1968), pp. 37-38, 342.

E.H. Lind, Norsk-isländska dopnamn ock fingerade namn från medeltiden. Uppsala: A.B. Lundequistska Bokhandel (1915), col. 95.

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