[ANSTHRLD] Name help: Wilhelm da Kaalovo
Christie Ward
val_org at hotmail.com
Thu Sep 27 07:45:29 PDT 2001
Rosamund Blaunchflur asked:
>Any stunt onamasticians available today?
>A gentleman in our barony has been using the name Wilhelm da Kaalovo for
>ages. He now has arms he wants to register, so he needs to tweak the name
>into a registrable form. Either Wilhelm or William is acceptable for the
>given name, although Wilhelm is preferable. The surname is a made-up
>locative, but anything with a similar sound would be acceptable. He
>pronounces it "duh KAY-luh-vuh" The submittor has no preferences as to
>language/culture.
I went ahead and tried to see if one could make a Norse name out of this,
and had mixed success...
Vilhjálmr - Found in Old Danish as Wilhelm, in Old Swedish as Vilhelm, and
in Old West Norse as Vilhjálmr. Originally a West Germanic name. Appears
in a runic inscription in the nominative form uilhialmr. (NR)
Kylfa - masculine name,from Old West Norse kylfa, "club". Found also in Old
Swedish as the by-name Kylva. Appears in a runic inscription in the
nominative form kulua. (NR)
Dala- prefixed by-name, "from the Dales" (VBL)
í Koelingi, locative by-name "of Koelingi, of Körlinge" refers to Körlinge,
a farm in Össeby-Garns parish, Vallentuna hundred (county), Uppland, Sweden.
Found in a runic inscription in the dative form kuliki. (NR, BV)
Using the info above, I can come up with:
Vilhjálmr Kylfuson
Vilhelm Kylvuson
Vilhjálmr Dala-Kylfuson
Vilhelm Dala-Kylvuson
Vilhjálmr í Koelingi
Vilhelm í Koelingi
None of these is exactly the phonetical equivalent of his current made-up
locative, but maybe one will appeal to him.
Refs:
NR = Lena Peterson. Nordisk runnamnslexikon. (Dictionary of Names from Old
Norse Runic Inscriptions). Språk- och folkminnes-institutet (Institute
for Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research). http:
grimnir.dal.lu.se runlex index.htm Accessed 15 August 2001.
VBL = Viking Bynames found in the Landnámabók
by Aryanhwy merch Catmael (Sara L. Friedemann)
http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~sfriedemann/names/vikbynames.htm
BV = The Bynames of the Viking Age Runic Inscriptions
by Lindorm Eriksson
http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/lindorm/runicbynames/
::GUNNORA::
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