Short old fashioned male names offer simplicity while maintaining a classic feel. These concise names are easy to pronounce yet still have an elegant, timeless charm that suits any personality. Here’s a list of short old-fashioned boy names that are both classic and easy to remember. 1. Ami...
Old English ald (Anglian), eald (West Saxon, Kentish) "antique, of ancient origin, belonging to antiquity, primeval; long in existence or use; near the end of the normal span of life; elder, mature, experienced," from Proto-Germanic *althaz "grown up, adult" (source also of Old Fris...
Saxon St. Eadburgh. Found through the 17th c. Edburga Idaburga Ede masc. & fem. Ead Edee Eedie Eady More common during the preceding period. m. Edo f. Eda Eden Edan Edelot Eden masc. & fem. Earlier in the period, a diminutive of Ede used independently for males and ...
or was England in such disarray at that juncture that nothing could have saved the purity of the Anglo Saxon language and culture? “Forgetfulness,” by Billy Collins (b. 1941) The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking ...
One of their leading tenets was to dissolve the ties of matrimony as suited their convenience -- and a promiscuous sexual intercourse was tolerated, by each male being allowed to take seven wives! It seems Cochran, the High Priest of iniquity, had had nearly half his female followers for ...
only a few pages in Bede’sEcclesiastical Historyhint at Hild’s profound influence, and the other 29 women known to have run double monasteries in Anglo-Saxon England are hardly more than names. Gibson’s goal is to commemorate them, intertwining her own imagination with copious research to ...
The Mormons were originally of the sect known as "Latter-day Saints," which sect flourishes wherever Anglo-Saxon gulls are found in sufficient numbers to swallow the egregious nonsense of fanatic humbugs who fatten upon their credulity. In the United States they especially abounded; but, the cr...
The Anglo-Saxons of course knew that a smith is a metalworker, any kind of metal, and in the recorded literature often a goldsmith. In verse especially, smið is often the second element of compounds, and the first element is quite frequently an abstract, gryn-, hleahtor-, lar-, te...
Perhaps geography is also perceptible in the contours of the language. Those countries that are a boat-ride away have what seem to me to be old Finnish names, in that they bear little relation to Anglo-Saxon/Norse names I.e. Russia isVenaja, Sweden isRuotsi, Germany isSaksa, and so on...
As the space allotted to me is limited, and as the sketch left by Warner of the convivial habits and household arrangements of the Saxons or Normans in this island, as well as of the monastic institutions, is more copious than any which I could offer, it may be best to refer simply ...