Pre-Christian Sacral Personal Names in Scandinavia during the Proto-Scandinavian Period

dc.contributor.authorVikstrand, Per
dc.date.accessioned2010-04-20T16:45:11Z
dc.date.available2010-04-20T16:45:11Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractThis 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.citationProceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciencesen
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-55014-521-2
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/4045
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherYork Universityen
dc.rightsThe 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.3.0en
dc.subjectPre-Christian Names in Scandinaviaen
dc.subjectNames in Proto-Scandinavian Perioden
dc.titlePre-Christian Sacral Personal Names in Scandinavia during the Proto-Scandinavian Perioden
dc.title.alternativeSession Paperen
dc.typeArticleen

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