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Pre-conquest

Barley, Nigel ‘Perspectives on Anglo-Saxon names’ Semiotica 11 (1974), 1-31

Beeaff, Diane ‘Aelfraed and Haranfot : Anglo-Saxon personal names’ History Today 28 (1978) 688-690

Briggs, Elizabeth ‘Nothing but names: The original core of the Durham Liber Vitae’ in: Rollason, David, et al., Eds. , Durham Liber Vitae and its Context, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer (2004) [isbn; 1843830604].

Clark, Cecily ‘The early personal names of King’s Lynn: an essay in socio-cultural history, Part I — baptismal names’
Notes: An analysis of personal names in terms of pre-Conquest and continental influences.

Clark, Cecily ‘English Personal Names ca 650-1300: some prosographical bearings’Medieval Prosopography 8:1 (1987) 31-60
Notes: reprinted in Studies on the Personal Name in Later Medieval England and Wales

Cooper, Tracey-Anne ‘Basan and Bata: the occupational surnames of two Pre-Conquest monks of Canterbury’

Feilitzen, Olof von. The Pre-Conquest personal-names of Domesday Book Nomina Germanica, 3, Uppsala, 1937

Feilitzen, Olof von ‘Notes on some Scandinavian personal names in English 12th-century records’ Anthroponymica Suecana 6 (1965), 52-68

Feilitzen, Olof von ‘The personal names of the Winton Domesday’ in: Winchester in the early Middle Ages, an Edition and Discussion of the Winton Domesday, edited by Martin Biddle and Frank Barlow, pp143-229, 1976

Fellows Jensen, G. Scandinavian personal names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire Navnestudier, 7, Copenhagen, 1968

Insley, John ‘Regional variation in Scandinavian personal nomenclature in England’ Nomina 3, (1979), 52-60

____ ‘The Scandinavian Personal Names in the later part of the Durham Liber Vitae ‘ in: Rollason, David, et al., Eds. , Durham Liber Vitae and its Context, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer (2004) [isbn; 1843830604].

_____ ‘The study of Old English personal names and anthroponymic lexica in Person und Name. Methodische Probleme bei der Erstellung eines Personennamenbuches des Frühmittelalters, edited by D Geuenich, W. Harbrichs and J Jarnut, Berlin: Walter de Guyter, 2002, pp148-176

_____ Scandinavian personal names in Norfolk : a survey based on medieval records and place-names Acta Academiae Regiae Gustavi Adolphi, 62 (Uppsala, 1994)

_____ ‘Some Scandinavian personal names in south-west England from post-Conquest records’ Studia Anthroponymica Scandinavica 3 (1985), 23-58

Kitson, Peter ‘How Anglo-Saxon personal names work’ Nomina 25 (2002), 91-132

Parsons, David ‘Anna, Dot, Thorir…counting Domesday personal names’  Nomina 25 (2002), 29- 52

Redin, M. Studies on Uncompounded Personal-Names in Old English Uppsala Universitets Arsskrift, 1919, Uppsala, 1919

Searle, W.G. Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum Cambridge, 1897

Seltén, B. The Anglo-Saxon heritage in Middle English Personal Names: East Anglia 1100-1399 I, Lund, 1972 46-50
Notes:Cecily Clark comments “takes inadequate account of scribal convention”

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