ES - Redneck Anglians

[Richard Culver]

>As an SCA name, it wouldn't matter whether an Anglian prince named Bubba
>existed.  The royal pedigrees are virtually our only record of early
>Anglo-Saxon naming practices.  Anna, or Bubba would be accepted and even
>commended.  (just not Anna Raedwaldson).

    This is I know.  I just thought it was funny.  I am quite happy with my 
own name.
   As with the "Rædwaldson", yes this is a falsehood which has bothered me 
for sometime.  People seem to think all the German threw an "s" at the end 
of the father's name and add the relation.  Not true.

>Whether Bubba actually existed is another question.  Do they say whether
>they are working from contemporary documents or king lists?

  This particular list was from Bede who is fairly reliable and would not go 
to the extent (at least not often) validating much pagan in origin.

>For example, every Scandinavian or Anglo-Saxon royal house could trace
>itself back to Odin, Thor, or Frey.  The early warrior expected to be led 
>by
>the god-descended.  When the royal houses converted to Christianity, Odin,
>Thor, and  Frey were kept, and linked to the Old Testament, and to Adam.

  I often wonder how old such a belief was because not royal families had 
it.  As a matter, it seems many of the Saxon ones were constructed to 
continue from some of the Anglian geneologies and knows what really inspired 
those.  I personally feel these were more meant to signify the antiquity of 
the family and not so much the godlikehood of these folk.  In Germanic 
literature one sees the "giants" being used very similarly as personified 
time references as in " of giant smithcraft", usw.

>I have a Victorian genealogy that trails off into the king lists for Anglo
>Saxons and British royals.  The Earls of Nottingham are descended from
>royalty of England, Scotland, Wales, France, Leon, Denmark, Castile, the
>Holy Roman Empire, etc.  Adam, Noah, and Abraham are at the head of the
>family tree of course, but Odin, Thor, Frea, Jupiter, King Priam of Troy,
>King Coel of Rheged (old king Cole), and Joseph of Arimethea also figure.


   They certainly were creative that is for sure.

Cyniríc

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