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Særæd
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Discussion of the name
Særæd is a masculine Old English name formed from the elements sæ (‘sea’) and ræd (‘counsel, wisdom’). Both elements were in common use in forming names, but Særæd itself was a rarity, the only example on record outside DB being an abbot in the original core (c. 800) of the Durham Liber Vitae (DLV: II, 145).Bibliography
DLV: The Durham Liber Vitae. London, British Library, MS Cotton Domitian A.VII: Edition and Digital Facsimile with Introduction, Codicological, Prosopographical and Linguistic Commentary, and Indexes, ed. D. W. Rollason and L. Rollason, 3 vols. (London: British Library, 2007)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: SaredSpellings in Exon: Saredus (read by von Feilitzen (1937: 354) as Seredus, but the manuscript rather suggests that the scribe started to write an –e– as the second letter before changing it to an –a–.)
Forms in modern scholarship:
von Feilitzen head forms: Særæd
Phillimore edition: Saered
Alecto edition: Særæd