[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.
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