Sigsten

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Discussion of the name

Sigsten is a masculine name of Scandinavian origin, ON Sigsteinn, formed from the elements sigr ‘victory’ and steinn ‘stone’; the name is not recorded in Norway until the end of the fourteenth century (when it arrived from Sweden) and must have reached England from Denmark. It is not recorded in PASE other than the one example from Domesday Book, but it appears in the place-name Thixendale (Yorks. ER) (von Feilitzen 1937: 364; Fellows Jensen 1968: 235). The parallel OE personal name Sigestan, from sige ‘victory’ and stān ‘stone’, is recorded only as the name of a thegn given land in Wiltshire by King Edgar in 964 (PASE: Sigestan 1). The DB spelling –stain shows that it represents the Scandinavian and not the English version of the name.

Phillimore renders the name in its normalized ON form, Sigsteinn; Alecto in its normalized OSw form, Sighsten.

Bibliography

Fellows Jensen 1968: Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire (Copenhagen: I Kommission hos Akademisk Forlag, 1968)

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: Sistain

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Sigsteinn

  Phillimore edition: Sigsteinn

  Alecto edition: Sighsten

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
Shropshire 4,3,28 Dawley Sistain Sigsten 'of Dawley' - Roger, earl Reynold de Bailleul 1.00 1.20 0.25 A Map
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