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Hello all,


In my free time I am a (starting) writer.
For my newest book i need some Nordic names from the time that they sailed the ocean and randsacked cities in what we now call England.
So let's say around the year1000.

I have found numerous sites with loads of names but there is either no information about the meaning of the name or I cannot verify how old the name is.

Does anyone have some tips for me??

Sniff

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Thor

mrswdk wrote:Thor

Yes, and Odin, and Ragnar, and Huginn and Muninn and those crazy ass bitches the Valkyries.

Here's a few that you could follow the link and verify:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Viking_warriors

I was trying to find a list of the viking kings of england but I couldn't. I'm guessing Wikipedia is your friend here.

I think the biggest problem with accuracy is that the Vikings didn't write a lot, so their names are only recorded in other languages.

Ragnar Lodbrok
Erik the Red
Smeagal the Defouler
Halfdan "Whiteshirt"
Sigurdr "Snake Eye"
Harald "Fairhair" Hardrade

There are a few in this bbc link, Ivvar, Hàlfdan...

One problem seems to be the Vikings liked to raze Churches. Knowing they could disrupt community and weaken the societies of the island by violently destroying the populations gathering places. The churches of the time also held most of the local historical writings, so that also removed the lists of who had been in charge prior to the Vikings attempt to take over with the intent to make it a new society populated and ruled by them.

The article briefly mentions that Vikings basically wiped out the Picts. Probably the only reason the Picts are even known, is from other writings including things recorded by some Romans. I'm not sure what the Picts called themselves, it was probably not anything in English.

As doom points out the Vikings preferred fighting to writing so their history of those times was often oral rather than recorded in a book that would either weigh them down, get lost or destroyed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/vi ... s_01.shtml

Great guys!!

Thanks for the input!

Sniff

You could use some of these for sub characters since they are still in use they would be farmiliar sounding.

http://www.viking.no/the-viking-heritag ... ven-names/

sniffie wrote:For my newest book i need some Nordic names from the time that they sailed the ocean and randsacked cities in what we now call England.
So let's say around the year 1000.

Try this one Behind the name: Ancient Scandinavian Names