Women's Names in Old English

by Elisabeth Okasha

Book Overview

This monograph provides an in-depth study into the issue of vernacular names in Old English documents. Specifically, it challenges the generally accepted notion that the sex of an individual is definitively indicated by the grammatical gender of their name. In the case of di-thematic names, the grammatical gender in question is that of the second element of the name. Thus di-thematic names have been taken as belonging to women if their second element...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138251984
• ISBN13: 9781138251984
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"