So you want to bear an authentic Norman name
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UlfrTheMighty
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you dont just become french if youre name is french 
you are french if youre from france or live there (speaking theyre language)
bet you all knew, just wanted too bring it up Hrotha ; )
you are french if youre from france or live there (speaking theyre language)bet you all knew, just wanted too bring it up Hrotha ; )
UlfrTheMighty
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youre right Hrotha but i guess not all nordic pepole had Nordic names, becuse some may married pepole from other places in the world that came as sellers or settlers if you know what i mean ?
(My opinion)evan tough i would guess 97%-98% of most nordic pepole or vikings had nordic names ; ) so Herger still may be one.
(My opinion)evan tough i would guess 97%-98% of most nordic pepole or vikings had nordic names ; ) so Herger still may be one.
Celtichugs
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UlfrTheMighty said:you dont just become french if youre name is french
bet you all knew, just wanted too bring it up Hrotha ; )
Doesn't quite work like that everywhere in the world, though. It's not all clear cut as that everywhere. Just a warning.
UlfrTheMighty said:
I'd say much less than that! For example almost as soon as Norseman or Dane came to Ireland for Western Scotland they adopted a Gaelic name (I'm ofcourse excluding Gaelic names of Norse origin here). And within a generation they took the languange and the religion (Celtic Christianity).
Exactly. They didn't see names in the same light as us. They were more like the Chinese who still get a Western name to deal with Westerners. If you were a Norman, the name you'd normally use at home would be Henri, but Henricus, Heinrich and whatever would be your name too, on the same footing as the usual Henri.
A character who went by the name "Herger" would most likely live among Normans or, more likely, Germans.
A character who went by the name "Herger" would most likely live among Normans or, more likely, Germans.
ClemLeNormand14
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Aklis said:ClemLeNormand14 said:
Corrected that for you.
You insult me by saying that, look my flag.
Fitzhore ! Kache por am koauntraey !
Added 25 new names (most of them male), bolded the most common names from the list, added an asterisk in front of Breton names which were used in Normandy (there's only 2 of them, though), and corrected a few forms that now I'm pretty sure were wrong.
IMPORTANT: One of the names I corrected is Helias, which should be Helies.
IMPORTANT: One of the names I corrected is Helias, which should be Helies. 
Rule zum Rabensang
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I can only applaude you for doing this fine work, Hrotha!
Takeda_Shingen
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hrotha said:
Excellent work, Hrotha, keep it up!
Regín Harðraða
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I'm guessing my name would be Reinalt in Old French, aye Hróða?
Since Val-és-Dunes is coming up and we all have to use the Norman equivalent of our names, I figured I should ask.
Since Val-és-Dunes is coming up and we all have to use the Norman equivalent of our names, I figured I should ask.
'tis an unlikely name... Why you would take the name of an ugly dwarf deludes me...
Regín Harðraða
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Well, the western-European equivalent of Regín is Reginald, so yeah, I imagined Reinalt would do the trick.
Éadric
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No no no, they are not equivalents.
Old Dutch / Old Saxon Reginald is from Old Germanic *Raginawaldaz. Its Old Norse equivalent would be Ragnaldr.
Old Norse Reginn is from Old Germanic *raginaz.
And I don't know why you put an acute accent on your i.
Old Dutch / Old Saxon Reginald is from Old Germanic *Raginawaldaz. Its Old Norse equivalent would be Ragnaldr.
Old Norse Reginn is from Old Germanic *raginaz.
And I don't know why you put an acute accent on your i.
