ANSTHRLD - Patronymic sources

[Richard Culver]

>That was the sense I had gotten when reading the ASC; I'm not sure where
>the other construction is regularly documented as a true patronymic.

  I do not think it is.  In what I read it is showing relationship, but not 
specifically through ancestry/heritage.  When "his sunu" is used, it is much 
like saying "his sword, his house...".  The "ing" seems to really state from 
whom you are descended.

Cyniric

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