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<p>--- In <a href="mailto:gothic-l%40yahoogroups.com">gothic-l@yahoogroup<wbr>s.com</a>, "ualarauans" <ualarauans@<wbr>...> wrote:<br>
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> BTW, you reconstruct *Sunjahildi, not *Swanahildi after ON <br>
> Svanhildr. Probably it was a change like Sigurðr for continental <br>
> Siegfried (not Siegwart) or Gottormr for Burgundian Godomaris, right?<br>
<br>
My thinking here was that Sunja- is a regular naming element in<br>
Gothic, but not in North or West Germanic where it may well have been<br>
reinterpreted. Gerhard Köbler lists the following: Sunhivadus,<br>
Suniagissius, Siniefredus (=Sunjaifriþas)<wbr>, Suniemirus, Sunieredo,<br>
Suniericus, Suniulfus, and maybe Sunila and Sunnila. There is one<br>
Suanila (for which the root swan- is proposed), and Sunilda (for which<br>
the root son- "atonement" is proposed) -- manuscripts of Jordanes also<br>
have Sunielh and Sunihil (Chambers, p. 17). Chambers mentions the<br>
theory that the name was *Sonahildi or *Sunihildi "the woman who<br>
atones", but dismisses the view espoused by several scholars that this<br>
"is a feigned name, like the names of the brothers Sarus and<br>
Ammius--'the armed ones'" which in this view supposedly proves that<br>
the story is fictitious and mythological with no historical<br>
foundation. As Chambers points out, there was a historical individual<br>
called Sarus, and it's not clear that Jordanes' Sunilda is necessarily<br>
to be understood in that way.<br>
<br>
The oldest example of the name in OHG is from a charter dated 786,<br>
Suanailta, "an ambiguous form" -- since this could be understood as<br>
either *Swan- or *Suan- / *Suon- < So:n- -- "and ... there are reasons<br>
for connecting the first element in the name rather with 'sunja'<br>
"truth" than 'so:n' "atonement" (Chambers, p.18, note 1). He doesn't<br>
go into those reasons (grr...); maybe they're the same as mine? If<br>
the name was reinterpreted in Continental West Germanic as<br>
*So:na-hildi, the High German sound change /o:/ > /uo/ would explain<br>
the attested forms there, as well the Old Norse form, supposing this<br>
was taken from Continental West Germanic tradition. The further<br>
adaptation Swanhild is attested already as a personal name in Germany,<br>
although not explicitly in connection with the legend; Chambers<br>
doesn't give any dates for other WG versions of the name, but notes<br>
that "different forms of the names Sonhild and Swanhild continue in<br>
frequent use", citing Pertz(ed.): Monumentae Germanic Historica, fol.<br>
S.S. t. VI, 1844, p. 23. So it may have been borrowed as such into<br>
Old Norse.<br>
<br>
So, yes, I suspect this name was changed much as were other names you<br>
mention.<br>
<br>
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