[BG-heralds] Name Hrethric aet Feldas

[Tim McDaniel]

for Hrethric aet Feldas

On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Fields Family Farm <fields at texas.net> wrote:
> My proposed last name: 'aet Feldas' - if I've got it correct is Old
> English for 'of the fields'.
>
> Daniel and I tried to look up the last name, but we need help.  We
> found, on page 167 of Reaney and Wilson's 3rd edition a 'sn' of
> Fielden.  Also, there was a version, after the invasion, 'de la
> Felden', which is supposedly a dative plural.

The full text is

Fielden, Feilden, Velden: William de la Felden 1286 Ipm (Wo). The
dative plural of O[ld] E[nglish] feld, 'one who lives in the fields'.

At the time, I saw an imaginary "from", but now I see that it's an
'is'.  Hrethric said that he'd checked an Old English grammar to get
the right ending, which he believes is Feldas after {ae}t.

Danyell de Lyncoln
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Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com