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

Description

Group A runes were most common in Viking Age Denmark

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Hrafnhild

Old Norse Hrafnhildr (f.)

Hrafnhildr is recorded in a few instances in West Scandinavia (Norway and Iceland) and in the quasi-historical Icelandic text, Landnámabók ‘The Book of Settlements’ which recounts the settlement of Iceland. It is also attested in two field names in West Yorkshire.

The personal name is an Old Norse compound, formed from Hrafn- , ‘raven’, combined with -hildr,  ‘battle’.

Old Norse Name

Rafnhildr

Anglicised Name

Rafnhild

Gender

Female

Features in Saga

Íslendingabók. Landnámabók, ed. Jakob Benediktsson. Íslenzk fornrit I. Reykjavík: Hið íslenzka fornritafélag, 1968, chs 346, 348.

Ascribed Culture

Collection

Viking Names

Keywords

bird, female_name, personal-name

Further information

References

Carole Hough, ‘Women in English place-names’, in ‘Lastworda Betst’. Essays in memory of Christine E. Fell with her unpublished writings, ed. Carole Hough and Kathryn A. Lowe. Donington: Shaun Tyas (2002), pp. 41-106.

Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag (1968), pp. 212, 345, 349.

E.H. Lind, Norsk-isländska dopnamn ock fingerade namn från medeltiden. Uppsala: A.B. Lundequistska Bokhandel (1915), col. 565-566.

 

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