Úlfljót written in runes
Úlfljót written in Viking Age runes (Type A)

Description

Group A runes were the most common in Viking Age Denmark

Úlfljót written in runes The name Úlfljót in runes The name Úlfljót in runes

Ulfljot

Old Norse Úlfljót (f.)

The Old Norse female personal name Úlfljót is comprised of the element Úlf– ‘wolf’ and the element -ljót which is also attested as the simplex female personal name Ljót. 

Although Úlfljót is not otherwise attested, the masculine equivalent Úlfljótr is recorded in Iceland and possibly Yorkshire. John Hines has suggested that the female name is inscribed in runes on the Saltfleetby spindle whorl found at Saltfleetby St Clement, Lincolnshire, which he has translated as ‘Óðinn and Heimdallr and Þalfa, they are helping you, Úlfljót…’.

Old Norse Name

Úlfljót

Anglicised Name

Ulfljot

Gender

Female

Ascribed Culture

Collection

Viking Names

Keywords

female_name, Lincolnshire, personal-name, runes, runic_inscription, spindle_whorl

Further information

References

Judith Jesch, ‘Further thoughts on E18 Saltfleetby.’ Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies 9-10 (2018-19), 201-13.

John Hines, ‘A glimpse of the heathen Norse in Lincolnshire.’ In Crossing Boundaries. Interdisciplinary approaches to the art, material culture, language and literature of the early medieval world, ed. Eric Cambridge and Jane Hawkes, (2017), Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 118-26.

Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag (1968), p. 327.

E.H. Lind, Norsk-isländska dopnamn ock fingerade namn från medeltiden. Uppsala: A.B. Lundequistska Bokhandel (1915), col. 740, 1053-4.

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