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

Description

Group A runes were most common in Viking Age Denmark

The name Skroppa in runes The name Skroppa in runes The name Skroppa in runes

Skroppa

Old Norse Skroppa (f.)

Skroppa is not recorded outside the sagas of the Icelanders but has been postulated as a female personal name which forms the first element of Scrooby, Nottinghamshire. In the Saga of Hord, Skroppa is a sorceress who uses illusion and shapechanging.

Old Norse Name

Skroppa

Anglicised Name

Skroppa

Gender

Female

Features in Saga

Harðar saga, eds Þórhallur Vilmundarson and Bjarni Vilhjálmsson. Íslenzk fornrit XIII. Reykjavík: Hið íslenzka fornritafélag, 1991, ch. 26.

Ascribed Culture

Collection

Viking Names

Keywords

female_name, personal-name

Further information

This object is related to Scrooby, Nottinghamshire.
Find out about Scrooby, Nottinghamshire.

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 Essays in memory of Christine E. Fell with her unpublished writings, ed.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, at pp. 88, 98.

J.E.B. Gover, Allen Mawer and F.M. Stenton, The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire. English Place-Name Society Volume XVII (1940), pp. 96-97.

E.H. Lind, Norsk-isländska dopnamn ock fingerade namn från medeltiden. Uppsala: A.B. Lundequistska Bokhandel (1915), col. 934.

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