Pre-Christian Sacral Personal Names in Scandinavia during the Proto-Scandinavian Period
| dc.contributor.author | Vikstrand, Per | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-04-20T16:45:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-04-20T16:45:11Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper deals with personal names from the Proto-Scandinavian period that refer to religious concepts such as gods or holiness. Such names fall into four categories. The first one contains '*ansuz' (as; heathen god) and the second one '*albiz' (elf). The third is made up of names cognate to the adjective '*hailaga-' (holy), and the fourth of names cognate to another adjective, '*wīha-' (holy). Finally, it is argued that names of individual gods do not occur in Proto-Scandinavian personal names, although they do become very popular during the Viking Age. | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciences | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-55014-521-2 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10315/4045 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | York University | en |
| dc.rights | The following articles are © 2009 with the individual authors. They are made available free of charge from this page as a service to the community under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivative Works license version 3.0. For full details go to http://creativecommons.org.licenses/ny-nd.3.0 | en |
| dc.subject | Pre-Christian Names in Scandinavia | en |
| dc.subject | Names in Proto-Scandinavian Period | en |
| dc.title | Pre-Christian Sacral Personal Names in Scandinavia during the Proto-Scandinavian Period | en |
| dc.title.alternative | Session Paper | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |