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4th August 2015, 10:37
The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources aims to document all given names recorded in European sources written between 600 and 1600.
This is WONDERFUL!
There are some missing names, but no doubt they will get to them.
Some interesting discoveries some bad, some good:
Girl:
Dusca, Esperance, Hyssop, Idony, Lovewell, Paxe, Sapience, Viridis (I love this), Zoete ...
Boy:
Bonvalet, Dalibor, Everwin, Falco, Ponce (that's a good one to be left in the annals), Sixt, Venture, Zwentibold...
From the About page:
The Dictionary aims to contain all given (fore, Christian) names recorded in European sources written between 600 and 1600, minus the names of historical/non-contemporary people, and names occurring only in fictional literature or poetry. Development of the Dictionary is planned in two phases:
First phase: Sources from Great Britain, Ireland, Iceland, Scandinavia, Iberia, Italy, France, Germany, Hungary
Second phase: Sources from Eastern Europe (Romania, Greece, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic states, etc.)
What's new?
We published the first edition in 2015, containing over 20,000 citations of more than 1,000 different names from Portugal, Spain, Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Estonia, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Malta.
You can browse your name here: http://dmnes.org/
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This is WONDERFUL!
There are some missing names, but no doubt they will get to them.
Some interesting discoveries some bad, some good:
Girl:
Dusca, Esperance, Hyssop, Idony, Lovewell, Paxe, Sapience, Viridis (I love this), Zoete ...
Boy:
Bonvalet, Dalibor, Everwin, Falco, Ponce (that's a good one to be left in the annals), Sixt, Venture, Zwentibold...
From the About page:
The Dictionary aims to contain all given (fore, Christian) names recorded in European sources written between 600 and 1600, minus the names of historical/non-contemporary people, and names occurring only in fictional literature or poetry. Development of the Dictionary is planned in two phases:
First phase: Sources from Great Britain, Ireland, Iceland, Scandinavia, Iberia, Italy, France, Germany, Hungary
Second phase: Sources from Eastern Europe (Romania, Greece, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic states, etc.)
What's new?
We published the first edition in 2015, containing over 20,000 citations of more than 1,000 different names from Portugal, Spain, Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Estonia, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Malta.
You can browse your name here: http://dmnes.org/
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