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- Title
Abbatissae uenerabili Heanfled agnominatae. An etymologicalonomastic note on a unique (?) AngloSaxon woman's name (S904).
- Authors
DI CLEMENTE, VALERIA
- Abstract
Records reveal only one occurrence of an AngloSaxon woman with the name Heanfled (S904, c. 1002). This has led to a general interpretation that this unique name is a scribal error (the true version being Eanfled, Eadfled, or Heahfled). Nonetheless, despite its longstanding rejection in the literature, the hypothesis remains that the spelling is no error and that Heanfled is in fact the real name. It is possible that Heanfled was a (Christian) first name in its own right, deliberately created or spelt according to the rules presiding over the formation of Germanic dithematic anthroponyms.
- Subjects
PERSONAL names; NAMING rights; ORTHOGRAPHY &; spelling
- Publication
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 2021, Vol 121, Issue 1, p233
- ISSN
0028-3754
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.51814/nm.107989