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Ordgrim

Discussion of the name

Von Feilitzen assigned the DB name Orgrim to a Continental Germanic Ordgrim, but also noted the possibility that it derived from the unrecorded ON Úlfgrímr, via an Anglicized spelling Olgrim and an Anglo-Norman assimilation of the sequence l–r to r–r (1937: 336). His ON explanation is contrived, and a CG name for a minor landowner in north Shropshire unlikely in the extreme. The name was much more likely a hybrid of OE ord ‘spear’ and Scandinavian grim (ON grímr ‘mask’). It is not recorded beyond the single instance in DB.

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: Orgrim

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Ordgrim

  Phillimore edition: Ordgrim

  Alecto edition: Ordgrim

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 Shropshire	Phil. ref. 4,11,19	Vill Peplow	DB Spelling Orgrim	Holder 1066 Ordgrim 'of Peplow'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger, earl	1086 Subtenant Ralph de Mortimer	Fiscal Value 1.50	1066 Value 1.15	1086 Value 0.31	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Ordgrim 2 - Ordgrim ‘of Peplow’ (Salop.), fl. 1066