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

Description

Group A runes were most common in Viking Age Denmark

The name Móðir in runes The name Móðir in runes The name Móðir in runes

Modir

Old Norse Móðir (f.)

The Old Norse female name Móðir is found in Motherby, Cumberland, and has been suggested as the first element in Moodersley, a minor name in Kedleston, Appletree Hundred, Derbyshire. The name Kedleston itself includes the male personal name Ketill.

Móðir means literally ‘mother’ and the use of family terms as personal names (compare the use of ‘Sonny’ in English), while not frequent, is attested in Scandinavia.

Old Norse Name

Móðir

Anglicised Name

Modir

Gender

Female

Ascribed Culture

Collection

Viking Names

Keywords

Derbyshire, female_name, personal-name

Further information

This object is related to Kedleston, Derbyshire.
Find out about Kedleston, Derbyshire.

References

Judith Jesch, ‘Scandinavian women’s names in English place-names’, in A Commodity of Good Names. Essays in honour of Margaret Gelling, ed. O. J. Padel and David N. Parsons. Donington: Shaun Tyas (2008), pp. 154-162, at pp. 159-160.

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 Essays in memory of Christine E. Fell with her unpublished writings, ed.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, at pp. 86, 98.

Kenneth Cameron, The Place-Names of Derbyshire III. English Place-Name Society Volume XXIX (1959), p. 580.

E. H. Lind, Norsk-isländska dopnamn ock fingerade namn från medeltiden. Uppsala: A.B. Lundequistska Bokhandel (1915), col. 774.

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