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History of Christian Names

History of Christian Names

Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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ISBN10: 1150446412
ISBN13: 9781150446412
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 306
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.68 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ...it possible that all the three words Ing, Isk, Er, may only be grammatical terminations of the same, but this is scarcely possible; they are far more likely to be representative name-fathers of the nearly related tribes. Of Esc, the ash tree, there is little to say. He seems to be related to the northern idea of Ask, the man of wood, and his supposed descendants were the Franks and Alle-manni; but the only instance of his name occurring again is as the soubriquet of the son of Hengist, from whom the kings of Kent were called Escings. Ing is far more interesting, but infinitely more inexplicable. At the end of a man's name it means his son; at the end of that of a place, an inhabitant; when in the name of a place, a meadow. It is tempting to suppose it related to young, but they are absolutely apart, and it probably conveys the sense of the clearness and brightness of the divinity. Ing, or Yngve, was looked on as the ancestor of the Swedish kings, who thence were called the Ynglinga; and the history which rationalizes Odin is thence termed the Ynglinga Saga, as it makes Yngve his son, and deduces the line from him. Ing, the son of Tuisco, is, however, a far more universal forefather, being almost without a doubt the name-father of that great race that we have called Angela, Anglo-Saxons, and English. Seaxnot is a son of Woden in the Saxon genealogies, and is very possibly the same as Ing. We have been taught to imagine that our country was invaded by three separate races of Jutes, Saxons, and Angles; but there is no reliable evidence to show that there was any real difference between the races; their language is precisely the same, and there is evidence to lead to the conclusion that Angeln was the title by which they knew themselves, while their...

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