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

Description

Group A runes were most common in Viking Age Denmark

The name Skeggi in runes The name Skeggi in runes The name Skeggi in runes

Skeggi

Old Norse Skeggi (m.)

The male name Skeggi is sporadically recorded across Scandinavia and Iceland in the Viking Age and later. It forms the first element of Skegness, Lincolnshire, with Old Norse nes ‘headland’. The name possibly derives from the Old Norse word Skegg, meaning ‘beard’.

Old Norse Name

Skeggi

Anglicised Name

Skeggi

Features in Saga

“The saga of Gisli Sursson.’ Gíslis saga Súrssonar. Vestfirðinga sögur. Eds. Björn K. Þórólfsson and Guðni Jónsson. Íslenzk Fornrit, Vol. 6. Reykjavík: : Hið Isleznka Fornritafélag, 1943.) Chapter 2-3,7-8, and 10.

Gisli Sursson’s Saga and the Saga of the People of Eyri. Trans. Martin Regal and Judy Quinn. London: Penguin Classics, 2004.)

‘The saga of the people of the Laxa-dale.’ Laxdœla saga. Eds. Einar Ólafur Sveinsson. Islenzk Fornrit, Vol. 5. (Reykjavík: Hið Isleznka Fornritafélag, 1934.) Chapter 6-7, 40-41, and 78.

Laxdæla saga. Trans. Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Pálsson. (London: Penguin Books, 1969.)

 

Ascribed Culture

Collection

Viking Names

Keywords

male_name, personal-name

Further information

This object is related to Skegness, Lincolnshire.
Find out about Skegness, Lincolnshire.

References

Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag (1968), p. 247.

Kenneth Cameron, A Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place-Names. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society (1998), p. 110.

H. Lind. Norsk-Isländska Dopnamn ock Fingerade Namn från Medeltiden. (Uppsala: A.B. Lundequistska Bokhandel, 1915) P. 733-737.

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