[ANSTHRLD] Bjorn: <o> or <o-slash>

[C. L. Ward]

Alden said:
>I'm not sure if it's Bjorn or Bjørn.

Old Norse: <Bio,rn> or <Bjo,rn> depending on how you normalize the second
letter.

Old Danish <Biorn>
Old Swedish <Biorn> or <Bio/rn> (there's your o-slash character)
Latinized Old Danish forms include <Bero>, <Berno>, <Biorno>, <Biornus>.

This was a very popular name, as the many runic examples (and spelling
variants!) attest: nominative case forms include biairn, biarn, biaurn,
biaurn, binrn, biorn, birn, biurn, burn, byorn, byrn; the genitive case
forms bianaR, biarnar, biarnaR; the accusative case forms baorn, biaorn,
biarn, biern, bihrn, biorn, bira, biur, biurn, biurno, burn, etc.

Geirr Bassi Haraldsson. The Old Norse Name. Studia Marklandica I. Olney, MD:
Markland Medieval Militia. 1977. p. 8 s.n. Björn

Gillian Fellows-Jensen. Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and
Yorkshire. Copenhagen. Akademisk Forlag. 1968. pp. 54-55 s.n. Björn

Lena Peterson. Nordiskt runnamnslexikon. Språk- och folkminnes-institutet.
http://www.dal.lu.se/runlex/index.htm  Accessed 30 May 2003. s.n. Biörn

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