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Alaf

Discussion of the name

Alaf is an Old Danish form of the Old Norse masculine name Áleifr and, like the side-form Óláfr and the archaic form Anláfr, comprised the elements *anu ‘ancestor’ and leifr ‘inheritance, son’ (von Feilitzen 1937: 143; Fellows Jensen 1968: ciii-civ, 6; see also discussion under head-forms Onlaf, Olaf).  A normalized form of ODan Ālāf is used here for consistency with the other head-forms.

The only entry in the PASE corpus is for Aleifr 1, a catch-all for occurrences in DB.

Bibliography

Fellows Jensen 1968: G. Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire (Copenhagen, 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: Allef

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Áleifr

  Phillimore edition: Aleif

  Alecto edition: Aleifr

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Lord 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 Lincolnshire	Phil. ref. 13,33	Vill Maidenwell	DB Spelling -	Holder 1066 -	Lord 1066 Alaf ‘of Maidenwell’	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh, earl	1086 Subtenant Osbern fitzTezzo	Fiscal Value 0.02	1066 Value 0.00	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence -	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Alaf 2 - Alaf ‘of Maidenwell’ (Lincs.), fl. 1066