NAFNGIFT – get a period name
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Celtichugs
Sergeant Knight at Arms
One is "aon" and eye is "súil" in modern Irish, I think. But, I am not sure. Either way, modern Irish is of no use here.
Éadric
Knight at Arms
From the electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (eDIL):
danar ‘stranger, foreigner; in depreciatory sense a cruel and ferocious foreigner or barbarian, a robber, pirate, bandit’ – actually the same word as Danar ‘Dane; Viking’
cáech ‘blind in one eye’ – also used substantively: ‘person blind in one eye’
And thus for you: Danar Cáech or just Cáech.
danar ‘stranger, foreigner; in depreciatory sense a cruel and ferocious foreigner or barbarian, a robber, pirate, bandit’ – actually the same word as Danar ‘Dane; Viking’
cáech ‘blind in one eye’ – also used substantively: ‘person blind in one eye’
And thus for you: Danar Cáech or just Cáech.
FrisianDude
Archduke
Oh, you're Léofgar? I'm no expert at all, but sounds to me as if 'Liudger' (Like I was Liud-ulf) could be a continental equivalent to Léofgar, and it's attested, but I'm not sure if it's attested to the right period. 
Where exactly in the continent? The Old Saxon version for example should be Liofgêr. The Old Frisian form should be Liāfgēr. In the Old High German dialects most likely to feature in Víkingr, it should be Liobgēr or Liebgēr, but in Upper German dialects it should be Liupkēr. I'm not entirely sure about any of these forms, though, so I'd wait to see if anyone else (*cough* Eadric *cough*) can confirm them.
I'm not sure the Frisian form is attested, either. The others at least should be fine.
edit: nevermind, the Altdeutsches Namenbuch does have an instance of Liafger. The spelling of the diphthong was pretty unstable though, so maybe that's not actually Frisian; you can also find io and iu regardless of dialect, I think.
edit 2: a likely Old Norman French adaptation would be Lieger or Leoger.
I'm not sure the Frisian form is attested, either. The others at least should be fine.
edit: nevermind, the Altdeutsches Namenbuch does have an instance of Liafger. The spelling of the diphthong was pretty unstable though, so maybe that's not actually Frisian; you can also find io and iu regardless of dialect, I think.
edit 2: a likely Old Norman French adaptation would be Lieger or Leoger.
You don't actually need to use <ē> per se. Some scribes were very consistent when it came to marking long vowels (Notker for example might have written something like Líebgêr, with an acute accent and a circumflex), but on the whole you can safely leave those diacritics out.
I suggest we add a link to Hróþa's Early Rusĭ Names guide here.
I think I spotted a little error in the Old Norse byname list. "Inn goði" should be "inn góði" and it means "the good".
"Inn" is the definite article, i.e. "the".
EDIT: And I doubt that "austmaðr" refers to a man from "continental Scandinavia" (is there non-continental Scandinavia?). I would think it refers to a man from the Baltic countries or somewhere there.
EDIT: "inn" is the masculine article, "in" the feminine. "In auða" is a byname for a woman. Another little thing I found was "gyðja" which in Old Norse meant goddess as well as priestess. It derives from "goð" which is cognate with English "god".
"Inn" is the definite article, i.e. "the".
EDIT: And I doubt that "austmaðr" refers to a man from "continental Scandinavia" (is there non-continental Scandinavia?). I would think it refers to a man from the Baltic countries or somewhere there.
EDIT: "inn" is the masculine article, "in" the feminine. "In auða" is a byname for a woman. Another little thing I found was "gyðja" which in Old Norse meant goddess as well as priestess. It derives from "goð" which is cognate with English "god".
Andrix said:
Andri is an Icelandic name currently in use, and I'm pretty sure it's Old Norse too. Think it's in the mythology somewhere, a dwarf maybe?
