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Sylvi

Discussion of the name

Sylvi is an Old Danish masculine name perhaps derived from sylf ‘silver’; the DB form could also represent Old Swedish Siælve but this is less likely than an Old Danish name in an English context, while Old Norse Solve would not give rise to the DB form (von Feilitzen 1937: 382; contra Björkman 1910: 116; cf. Fellows Jensen 1968: 283).

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

Bibliography

Björkman 1910: Erik Björkman, Nordische Personennamen in England in alt- und frühmittel-englischer Zeit, Studien zur englischen Philologie 37 (Halle an der Saale, 1910; reprinted Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1973)

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: Selua

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Sylvi

  Phillimore edition: Selva

  Alecto edition: Sylvi

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 Essex	Phil. ref. 32,34	Vill Fryerning	DB Spelling Selua	Holder 1066 Sylvi 'of Ing'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Robert Gernon	1086 Subtenant William d'Aunay	Fiscal Value 1.38	1066 Value 2.00	1086 Value 2.00	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Sylvi 2 - Sylvi ‘of Ing’ (Essex), fl. 1066