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Winterled

Discussion of the name

Winterled derives ultimately from the ON name Vetrliðr, originally a byname with the literal meaning ‘winter-traveller’ which was evidently coined in the Norwegian Atlantic diaspora and not at first used in Norway itself (von Feilitzen 1937: 403; Fellows Jensen 1968: 271). Its earliest appearances in England show that the name had been thoroughly Anglicized in the form Winterled by the mid-eleventh century at latest. It first occurs as the name of a moneyer at York in the 990s, whose name the die-cutter rendered Winterleda, using the English runic wynn for the initial letter (EMC: 1007.0320). That moneyer is currently the only person of this name recorded in PASE (Winterled 1).

The Phillimore edition uses the form Winterled in Cambridgeshire and Winterlet in Cheshire; Alecto normalized them under the original ON form Vetrlithr.

Bibliography

EMC: On-line Early Medieval Corpus of Coin Finds/Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles

http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/dept/coins/emc

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: Winterled, Winterlet

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Vetrliðr

  Phillimore edition: Winterled, Winterlet

  Alecto edition: Vetrlithr

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 Cambridgeshire	Phil. ref. 26,20	Vill Guilden Morden	DB Spelling Winterled	Holder 1066 Winterled ‘of Guilden Morden’	Lord 1066 Ælfgar, earl	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hardwin de Scales	1086 Subtenant Alfred 'of Guilden Morden'	Fiscal Value 0.13	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.25	Confidence -	Map
Shire Cheshire	Phil. ref. 8,9	Vill Thingwall	DB Spelling Wintrelet	Holder 1066 Winterled ‘of Thingwall’	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh, earl	1086 Subtenant William Malbank	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 0.40	1086 Value 0.25	Confidence -	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Winterled 3 - Winterled ‘of Thingwall’ (Ches.), fl. 1066
• Winterled 4 - Winterled ‘of Guilden Morden’ (Cambs.), fl. 1066