Fantastic idea for a name

[sonlypuppyfat]

My baby years are over, but I've been thinking, after watching history programmes,why don't people use old English names anymore. Ealdwine,Athelstan, Albert ch, Etheldreda all brilliant names, don't you think?

I know of a baby Aethelflaed!

Name changed as is FAR too outing!

My middle name is Etheldreda. I've hated it all my life! Having to admit to that on school trips etc... it was awful. If you give your baby one of those names, bear in mind THEY are the one that will have to deal with it later on, not you.

fwend that's fantastic

As long as Cnut doesn't experience a revival!

I know of a baby Aethelflaed

Brilliant! I love it. I want to meet those parents!

I suspect the parents are fans of The Last Kingdom. 

Yep, I’m totally imagining the Mum as Brida!

Except I suppose brida wouldn’t choose an Anglo Saxon name would she?

It would be hard to find a mug with your name on

I love the name Idony (pronounced Id-uh-nee), also Old English if I remember rightly.

@IStandWithPosie possibly not. She'd be old school Norse all the way!

Wulfgifu is my favourite for a girl

Alaric was on our shortlist and we chose another -ric name in the end. Love Old English names!

I've loved the name Aelfgifu since studying that stuff at university, but it will never, ever be allowed and to be honest that is probably for the best. I've never heard of Wulfgifu before @FartnissEverbeans but it is excellent. A gift from the wolves!

I've loved the name Aelfgifu since studying that stuff at university, but it will never, ever be allowed and to be honest that is probably for the best. I've never heard of Wulfgifu before FartnissEverbeans but it is excellent. A gift from the wolves!

But would you use the "modernised" forms (i.e. mediæval) Elfgiva/Alviva instead? Or Ulviva for Wulfgifu? More chance of a revival that way.

@HoratioNightboy absolutely not. Go hard or go home.

(incidentally it looks like Wulfgifu was the sister of Godiva - I'd never thought about it but I suppose that makes her God's Gift. Riding around on that horse in the altogether.)