ANSTHRLD - Patronymic sources

Kathleen O'Brien kobrien at bmc.com
Mon Jun 26 16:29:36 PDT 2000


At 05:32 PM 6/26/00 -0500, Jodi McMaster wrote:
>Richard Culver wrote:
>> 
>> Wesaþ ge hal!
>> 
>>    I was curious if anyone has specific sources for patronyms in Old
>> English.  I am familiar with the "-ing", but I have seen various forms of
>> "X-es dohtor" or "X-es sunu".  I was wondering when the shift was made.
Was
>> it a result of the Dane Law?  
>
>
>Good question.  Oh.  An answer?  When I recover from sleep deprivation,
>I'll look through what I've got, but my hunch is that Woolf may talk
>about it...but I'm fuddled enough that I can't be anywhere near certain.


I think both forms were used in the same time period - just that they were
different constructions.

But I need to go home and look it up.  

Mari

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