The Teutonic Name-system Applied to the Family Names of France, England, & Germany

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Williams & Norgate, 1864 - 606 pages
 

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Page 156 - Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests ; I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born.
Page 511 - These were the first ships of Danish men which sought the land of the English nation.
Page 287 - And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
Page 14 - Duding Hatte, the son of Wifus, is settled at Wealadene ; and Ceolmund Hatte, the son of Dunne, is also settled there ; and...
Page 14 - Maeg hath for his wife at Weligan; and Ealdelm, the son of Herethrythe, married the daughter of Tate. Werlaf Hatte, the father of Werstan, was the rightful possessor of Haethfelda,
Page 514 - O'Bruadair (son of Broder), Mac Ragnall (son of Ragnvald), Roaill (Rolf),* Auleef (Olaf), Manus (Magnus), and others. It is even asserted that among the families of the Dublin merchants are still to be found descendants of the old Norwegian merchants formerly so numerous in that city. The names of families adduced in confirmation of this, as Harrold (Harald), Iver (Ivar), Cotter or Mac Otter (Ottar), and others which are genuine Norwegian names, corroborate the assertion.
Page 149 - Haithebi. Now that district is called Old Anglia and is situated between the Saxons and the Gothi. From it the Angli came to Britain1.
Page 15 - Oswiu and Oswidu. In the successions of the same royal family we find the male names, OsfrrS, Oswine, Osric, Osraed, Oswulf, Osbald, and Osbeorht, and the female name OsSryS : and some of these are repeated several times.
Page 384 - These descendants of Woden appear to have reigned over the continental Angeln, a name now limited to the territory between Flensborg and Slesvig. The sixth on the list, viz. Offa (Uffo) the son of Wermund, was blind till his seventh, and dumb till his thirteenth year ; and, though excelling in bodily strength, was so simple and pusillanimous, that all hope that he would ever prove himself worthy of his station was abandoned.
Page 161 - Name-Sytem," says that in an age when war was the main business of man, names taken from the weapons in which he trusted, were as natural as they were common; and directly or indirectly from this source are derived more names than from all other sources put together.

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