The name Langlíf in runes
Langlíf written in Viking Age runes (Group A)

Description

Group A runes were most common in Viking Age Denmark

The name Langlíf in runes The name Langlíf in runes The name Langlíf in runes

Langlif

Old Norse Langlíf (f.)

In Scandinavia, the female name Langlíf is first recorded from the middle of the twelfth century. It is suggested that it occurs in scattered (and often late-recorded) place-names in England, in North Yorkshire and in Cumberland. Its occurrence in a minor name Leevingrey Furlong in Flintham, Bingham Wapentake, Nottinghamshire, has been disputed. The name also occurs in twelfth- and thirteenth-century documents from Norfolk. The name means ‘long life’ and may originally have been a by-name.

Old Norse Name

Langlíf

Anglicised Name

Langlif

Gender

Female

Features in Saga

Orkneyinga saga, ed. Finnbogi Guðmundsson. Íslenzk fornrit XXXIV. Reykjavík: Hið íslenzka fornritafélag, 1965, ch. 112.

Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney. Trans. Hermann Pálsson and Paul Edwards. London: Penguin Classics (1981).

Ascribed Culture

Collection

Viking Names

Keywords

female_name, personal-name

Further information

References

Susan Kilby, ‘Divining medieval water: the field-names of Flintham in Nottinghamshire’, Journal of the English Place-Name Society 49 (2017), 57-93, at p. 84.

John Insley, Scandinavian Personal Names in Norfolk. Uppsala: Acta Academiae Regiae Gustavi Adolphi LXII (1994), pp. 286-287.

John Insley, ‘Addenda to the Survey of English Place-Names: personal names in field and minor names’, Journal of the English Place-Name Society 10 (1977-8), 41-72, at p. 62.

Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag (1968), p. 184.

J.E.B. Gover, Allen Mawer and F.M. Stenton, The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire. English Place-Name Society Volume XVII (1940), p. 320.

E. H. Lind, Norsk-Isländska dopnamn ock fingerade namn från medeltiden. Uppsala: A.B. Lundequistska Bokhandel (1915), col. 729.

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