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Scefa
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Discussion of the name
Scefa is a masculine name that derives from a weak form of either Old Norse skeifr ‘skewed, crooked’ or Old English scēaf ‘sheaf, bundle’ (Redin 1919: 22-3, 78; von Feilitzen 1937: 356); von Feilitzen’s objections to an OE derivation appear to have been countered by Campbell (1959: 131; cf. von Feilitzen 1976: 171 s.n. Scerpt).The only entries in the PASE corpus are for Sceva 1, a catch-all for occurrences in DB, and for the possibly related Biblical or legendary instances Sceaf 1 and Sceaf 2; to accommodate these, the DB person is here profiled as Scefa 4.
Bibliography
Campbell 1959: A. Campbell, Old English Grammar (Oxford, 1959)Redin 1919: Studies on Uncompounded Personal Names in Old English (Uppsala: A.-B. Akademska Bokhandeln, 1919)
von Feilitzen 1937: Olof von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, Nomina Germanica 3 (Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1937)
von Feilitzen 1976: Olof von Feilitzen, ‘The personal names and bynames of the Winton Domesday’, in Winchester in the Early Middle Ages: An Edition and Discussion of the Winton Domesday, ed. Martin Biddle, Winchester Studies 1 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), 143–229
Forms of the name
Spellings in Domesday Book: SceuaForms in modern scholarship:
von Feilitzen head forms: Sceua
Phillimore edition: Skaife
Alecto edition: Sceva
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hampshire | 69,20 | Michelton | Sceua | Scefa 'of Michelton' | Edward, king | Edmund fitzPayn | - | 0.25 | 0.13 | 0.13 | B | Map |
| Totals | ||||||||||||