Hasten

Male
CPL
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Discussion of the name

Hasten is a name of Danish origin; von Feilitzen (1937: 287) discussed it under the normalized ON form Hásteinn, but the DB spelling Hasten was identical with the ODan form, and the name was common in Denmark. It was clearly much less used in England, and the only example found in the corpus of early names from Yorkshire and Lincolnshire was in a field-name in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The name was formed from the first element Há–, whose ultimate origin is uncertain, and stein ‘stone’ (Fellows Jensen 1968: 135, 344, 351).

The only other two occurrence of the name recorded in PASE certainly (in one case) and probably (in the other) belonged to Danes from Denmark: one of the leaders of the Viking fleet which attacked England in 892 was called Hæsten (PASE: Hæsten 1), while the group of thegns (ministri) with Danish names who witnessed Cnut’s charter of 1019 granting 16 hides in Dorset to another Danish thegn, Agemund 1, included a man called Hastin (PASE: Hastin 1).

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: Hasten

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Hásteinn, Hasten

  Phillimore edition: Hasten

  Alecto edition: Hasten

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
Cheshire 9,29 Lach Dennis Hasten Hasten, free man - Hugh, earl William Malbank 0.50 0.00 0.00 A Map
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