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Thormund

Discussion of the name

Thormund is an Old Danish masculine name comprising the elements Þórr, the god’s name, and mundr ‘protector’.

There are no pre-Domesday occurrences of this name in the PASE corpus.

Bibliography

von Feilitzen 1937: Olof von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, Nomina Germanica 3 (Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1937)

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Turmund

Spellings in Exon: Turmundus

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Þormund

  Phillimore edition: Thormund

  Alecto edition: Thormund

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Holder 1066

Shire	Phil. ref.	Vill	DB Spelling	Holder 1066	Lord 1066	Tenant-in-Chief 1086	1086 Subtenant	Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value	Conf.	Show on Map
Shire Dorset	Phil. ref. 5,1	Vill Winterborne	DB Spelling Turmund	Holder 1066 Thormund 'of Winterborne'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Geoffrey, bishop of Coutances	1086 Subtenant Osbern Giffard	Fiscal Value 4.50	1066 Value 3.00	1086 Value 5.00	Confidence B	Map
Shire Somerset	Phil. ref. 5,70	Vill Stowell	DB Spelling Turmund	Holder 1066 Thormund 'of Winterborne'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Geoffrey, bishop of Coutances	1086 Subtenant Azelin 'of Harptree'	Fiscal Value 3.00	1066 Value 2.00	1086 Value 3.00	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Thormund 2 - Thormund ‘of Winterborne’ (Dors.), fl. 1066