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Bersi

Discussion of the name

Bersi was a name of Scandinavian origin, from the word bersi, meaning a ‘he-bear’. No other examples are currently recorded in PASE, but the name was widely enough used in Yorkshire to be evidenced in several major and minor place-names (von Feilitzen 1937: 201; Fellows Jensen 1968: 53). Phillimore and Alecto both use the normalized ON and ODan spelling Bersi.

Bibliography

von Feilitzen 1937: Olof von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, Nomina Germanica 3 (Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1937)

Fellows Jensen 1968: Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire (Copenhagen: I Kommission hos Akademisk Forlag, 1968)

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Bers

Forms in modern scholarship:

von Feilitzen head forms: Bersi

Phillimore edition: Bersi

Alecto edition: Bersi

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 Cheshire	Phil. ref. 5,6	Vill Shurlach	DB Spelling Bers	Holder 1066 Bersi 'of Shurlach'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh, earl	1086 Subtenant Richard de Vernon	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.20	1086 Value 0.18	Confidence -	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Bersi 2 - Bersi ‘of Shurlach’ (Chesh.), fl. 1066