Description
Hjalp
Old Norse Hjalp (f.)
Hjalp was recorded in West Scandinavia by the time of the settlement of Iceland (c. 870-930) and is found in a Swedish place-name. The name was originally a byname from Old Norse hjǫlp ‘help’. It is also the first element of the place-name Helperby, North Yorkshire.
In the twelfth century, one of Earl Rǫgnvaldr of Orkney’s ships was called Hjalp, an early example of giving ships female names.
Old Norse Name
- Hjalp
Anglicised Name
- Hjalp
Gender
- Female
Features in Saga
Orkneyinga saga. Ed. Finnbogi Guðmundsson. Íslenzk fornrit XXXIV. Reykjavík: Hið íslenzka fornritafélag, 1965, ch. 85.
Ascribed Culture
Collection
- Viking Names
Keywords
- female_name, North_Yorkshire, Orkney, personal-name, ships
Further information
This object is related to
Helperby, North Yorkshire.
Find out about Helperby, North Yorkshire.
References
Judith Jesch (ed.) 2009, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl Kali Kolsson, Lausavísur 8’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 585.
Judith Jesch, ‘Women and ships in the Viking world‘, Northern Studies 36 (2001), 49-68.
Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag (1968), pp. 141-142.
E.H. Lind, Norsk-isländska dopnamn ock fingerade namn från medeltiden. Uppsala: A.B. Lundequistska Bokhandel (1915), col. 536-527.