[antir-heralds] More name help needed - Yngvarr of Kalmar

[Britt]

On Dec 12, 2007 7:27 AM, James D Sena <brendon at pacific.net> wrote:
> A gentleman in my shire is using the name Yngvarr of Kalmar, after doing
> some online research   He feels it is proper swedish, but I am drawing
> blanks trying to find usable documentation.

Yngvarr is a masculine name in Geirr Bassi Haraldsson's 'The Old Norse
Name', which is an Appendix H source.

Kalmar has a nice Wikipedia entry which indicates it's a very period
place, but Wikipedia articles aren't good documentation (because
anyone can edit them anytime and therefore the information cannot be
proven as correct from Wikipedia alone).  However there's an image of
a town seal from the mid-13th century there which names the town in
that spelling, so it's worth reading and perhaps if the image is
supported by outside documentation it could use useable.  The
article's at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmar

AHA!  http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9044423/Kalmar  And even
the paltry free blurb should be documentation enough for the place
name.  Perhaps someone on this list has Brittannica access and can get
more information for you.

While Old Norse names did not seem to use locatives like we do ('of
<placename>') I know that nicknames were sometimes of geographical
origin, such as 'in irski' which means 'the Irish'.
Aha again!  'The Bynames of the Viking Age Runic Inscriptions' by
Lindorm Eriksson at
http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/lindorm/runicbynames/ lists locative
bynames.  The Old Norse for 'of' seems to have been í.  So if your
client wishes to be authentic, Yngvarr í Kalmar seems correct using
Lindorm's article and the fact that Kalmar appears to be an early
spelling.  Yngvarr of Kalmar seems registrable using the lingua
anglica rule, as well.

Notice on the article that Lindorm is in Sweden.  I know another
herald on SCAHRLDS who is Scandanavian and reads/speaks Swedish, so if
you need anything translated I can show you to them and get you help.

- Teceangl