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Sælida

Discussion of the name

Sælida is an Old English masculine name originating as an appellative meaning ‘seafarer’.

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

Bibliography

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: Salide

Spellings in FBB: Selide, Selyde

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Sælida

  Phillimore edition: Salide

  Alecto edition: Sælida

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 Hampshire	Phil. ref. NF3,5	Vill Oselei	DB Spelling Salide	Holder 1066 Sælida 'of Oselie'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William, king	1086 Subtenant Nigel 'the man of Earl Roger'	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 2.00	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Sælida 2 - Sælida ‘of Oselie’ (Hants), fl. 1066
• Sælida 3 - Sælida ‘of Rougham’ (Suff.), fl. 1086