[gothic-l] The Eruli: Etymology and Scandinavia IV

[Bertil Haggman]

"The Ulster Annals s.a. 847 have the form erell in a context
where it is clear that Scandinavian jarl is meant. Marstrander thought
this a reflex of Common Scandinavian *irill (*erell), which
would have been the expected descendant of runic erilaR, but
it may be that this and the forms ierll s.a. 892 and iarla s.a. 917
are all reflexes of Common Scandinavian jarl or (before breaking)
*erl, and that the Irish form simply has a svarabhakti vowel, since
it is implausible that Scandinavian should have had a synonymic
doublet *irill and jarl or (as Marstrander proposed in order to
remedy this problem) have borrowed *erl from West Germanic.
In any case, Middle Welsh iarll 'count', iarlles 'countess',
iarlaeth 'county' stem from Scandinavian jarl.

...But neither the tribe name Eruli nor the runic word erilaR is
precisely cognate with the 'earl' root: they have a vowel where
*erlaz does not."

Erulically

Bertil


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