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

Description

Group A runes were most common in Viking Age Denmark

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

Havard

Old Norse Hávarðr (m.)

Hávarðr is a compound name formed from Há- which has three potential origins of ‘horse’, ‘high’,  or ‘battle’ and -varðr ‘guard, watchman’.

The name is found in West Scandinavia at the time of the settlement of Iceland and is very common in Norway from the thirteenth century onwards. The name is also recorded in Sweden and Denmark.

Hávarðr is the first element in the place-name of Hawerby, Lincolnshire.

Old Norse Name

Hávarðr

Anglicised Name

Havard

Gender

Male

Ascribed Culture

Collection

Viking Names

Keywords

male_name, personal-name

Further information

This object is related to Hawerby cum Beesby, Lincolnshire.
Find out about Hawerby cum Beesby, Lincolnshire.

References

Lena Peterson, Nordiskt runnamnslexikon: Femte, reviderade utgåvan. Uppsala: Institutet för språk och folkminnen (2007), p. 108.

Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag (1968), pp. 136-137, 344, 351.

E.H. Lind, Norsk-isländska dopnamn ock fingerade namn från medeltiden. Uppsala: A.B. Lundequistska Bokhandel (1915), col. 493-498.

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