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Swening

Discussion of the name

Swening is an Old Danish masculine name corresponding to Old Norse Sveinungr and representing a patronymic -ing form of the name Swein (von Feilitzen 1937: 381; Fellows Jensen 1968: 282).

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

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: Sueninc

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Sveinungr (Swening)

  Phillimore edition: Swening

  Alecto edition: Swening

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 Buckinghamshire	Phil. ref. 30,1	Vill Bow Brickhill	DB Spelling Sueninc	Holder 1066 Swening 'of Brickhill'	Lord 1066 Harold, earl	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Walter the Fleming	1086 Subtenant Fulcwin 'of Bow Brickhill'	Fiscal Value 1.25	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Swening 2 - Swening ‘of Brickhill’ (Buckinghamshire), fl. 1066