Old Saxon Personal Names Part 3 (Eghild - Friðurûna)
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- čas přidán 22. 01. 2022
- In this video, Dr. Scott Shell provides personal names attested in the Old Saxon corpus. This is Part 3 of the sub-series regarding personal names and covers Eghild ('Sword-Battle Courage') - Friðurûna ('Frith-Rune'). The third set of 10 names out of 125 are provided in this next installment. The names are provided in the attested forms, standardized Heliand forms and runic forms.
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Looking forward to rest of this series. Especially for names starting with M or S.
Nice this time we had a couple names still in use today.
I can guess that Friðurûna is going to mean something like "The secret of peace".
Great work Scott 💪
Thanks, Bill!
I had a classmate with the name Ebert. I am wondering if this is bright boar essentially? Could easily be a warrior name.
I am more inclined to think it is from Old Saxon Egbert or Old English Ecgbeorht. These both mean 'sword-bright.'
And yeah, we still use so many names that were historically warrior names: Gerald ('spear-wielder'), Albert ('noble-bright'), Hildegard ('battle/fight/armor-enclosure'), etc.
@@scottt.shellcontinentalger2464 Something we need to get back to if we wish to see our culture revitalized. All of my children will take Germanic names. My surname is Ingeberht, an anglicized form of Ingebrigt, which was the name of my great great grandfather, who came from Norway.
And again the name Erich still exist in Dutch as Erik or english as Eric.
Are you claiming that the Saxons sent women to battle? Where in your sources is this idea coming from?
I didn't claim that in this video. I was just giving literal translations of the Saxon names.
@@scottt.shellcontinentalger2464 At 1:25 you said "We have this warrior society in which men can fight and women can fight, especially in these times of the Saxon wars." It sounds like you are claiming that this is factual. I see this over represented very often today as common for Germanic pre-Christian societies. From the archeological/literary information I am aware of this seems to be a misrepresentation which is mainly the fault of modern media, such as in TV shows like the History channel's "vikings".
@@widukindbooks9934 ahh fair point. One source that comes to mind at least in the Scandinavian tradition is Guðrún in the Volsung cycle. In the text, it states that she picked up weapons and fought alongside her brothers. She also killed Atli and his men by burning them alive inside his hall.
@@scottt.shellcontinentalger2464 I recall that as well in the same story Brunhilde is described to wear armor. Many historians claim that this is just an aspect of legends and not based in historical social norms.
@@scottt.shellcontinentalger2464 The only societies I'm aware of in Eurasia that historians say did do this to any noticeable degree were some Scythian tribes and this is only because of their style of horse archer warfare which was on horse back shooting from a distance. Although it doesn't seem to be very sustainable for any society to continuously put a large portion of women, if any, in harms way.