[ANSTHRLD] Saxon Name Question

Christie Ward val_org at hotmail.com
Fri Feb 18 11:04:47 PST 2005


Lady Zahava batHannah asked:
>There is a member of the Northkeep populace who
>believes that the spelling 'Cearl' (pronounced Carl)
>is an old Saxon name but can not find the original
>source.  Can anyone help?

The name is from Old English <ceorl>, "man, rustic, husband, free-born man"; 
akin to Old Norse <karl>.

Ælfwyn æt Gyrwum. "Anglo-Saxon Names." 
http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/aelfwyn/bede.html S.n. <Cearl>.

Charter S294a, 844AD 
(http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=charter&id=294), 
subscription <+ Ego Ceorl dux>

Charter S294b, 844AD 
(http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=charter&id=294b), 
subscription <Cearl dux . subscripsi>

Charter S994, 1042AD 
(http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=charter&id=994), 
subscription <+ Ego Carl minister>

Charter S1001, 1044AD 
(http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=charter&id=1001), 
subscription <+ Ego Carl minister>

Charter S1006, 1044AD 
(http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=charter&id=1006), 
subscription <+ Ego Carl minister>

Charter S1007, 1045AD 
(http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=charter&id=1007), 
subscription <+ Ego Carl minister>

Charter S1008, 1045AD 
(http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=charter&id=1008), 
subscription <+ Ego Carl minister>

Charter S1009, 1045AD 
(http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=charter&id=1009), 
subscription <+ Ego Carl minister>

Charter S1010, 1045AD 
(http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=charter&id=1010), 
subscription <+ Ego Carl minister>

Charter S1012, 1045AD 
(http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=charter&id=1012), 
subscription <+ Ego Carl minister>

The Venerable Bede has a Cearl as king of Mercia c. 606-626 in Book II Ch. 
14, but I can't find a Latin text to verify what spelling was used.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (http://jebbo.home.texas.net/asc/frame.html) has:

  Mss. A (Parker MS; Corpus Christ College, Cambridge MS 173 ff. 1-32) has 
<Ceorl aldormon> in 851.

  Mss. B (Cotton Tiberius A.vi) has <Ceorl ealdormann> in 853.

  Mss. C (Cotton Tiberius C.i) has <Ceorl ealdormann> in 853.

  Mss. D (Cotton Tiberius B.iv) <Ceorl ealdorman> in 851.

  Mss. E (Bodleian MS Laud 636) <Ceorl ealdorman> in 851.

::GUNNVOR::





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