Gris men inte Svin ?

Henrik Williams, 1958- (Författare)

URI http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-17686, URN urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-17686

Uppsala universitet Humanistisk-samhällsvetenskapliga vetenskapsområdet (Utgivare)

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Uppsala : Seminariet för nordisk namnforskning, 2008

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Namn och Samhälle · ISSN 1404-1790 · Namn och Samhälle

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Namn från land och stad

203-208

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Humanities and the Arts, Languages and Literature, Specific Languages, Humaniora och konst, Språk och litteratur, Studier av enskilda språk, HUMANITIES and RELIGION, Languages and linguistics, Scandinavian languages, HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP, Språkvetenskap, Nordiska språk, Nordiska språk, Scandinavian Languages

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Namn från land och stad · ISBN 9789150620122 (Värdpublikation i annat format)

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Pig but not Swine ? The man’s name, Old West Norse Sveinn is the most popular of all personal names in runic inscriptions from the Viking age. But out of 113 seemingly certain records, no less than 52 are written suin and similarly, with only a non-dotted i -rune as representation of the /ei/ diphthong. This opens for the possibility that in these cases we are dealing with a completely different name, i.e. Svín (‘swine’), known as a byname in (late) Old Danish and Old Swedish. There are many porcine names in Old Norse, both as main names and as bynames: e.g. Galti (‘hog’), Gríss (‘young pig’), Gylta (‘young sow’), and Sýr (‘sow’). But none of these appear in runic inscriptions, and the putatively Norse byname Svín is shown to be a family name with German origin in medieval Danish and Swedish. Thus, a name * Svín was for some reason not used in the Viking Age. Since it was not part of the onomasticon there was no risk that Sveinn written suin would be confused with it. The 52 records in question, written with only an i -rune as representation of the wowel, are consequently to be interpreted as representations of Sveinn , as they have been before.