Anleifr
Anleifr is a Norse masculine name composed of anu (forefather) and leif (legacy).
Variants:
Unlof [William Bawdwen 1809 Dom Boc 1 (Nottinghamshire): 371].
Allef [William Bawdwen 1809 Dom Boc 1 (Lincolnshire): 482].
Anlof [Rogers Ruding 1817 Annals of the Coinage of Britain and its Dependencies, 1st edition, 1: 243].
Anlaf [Rogers Ruding 1817 Annals of the Coinage of Britain and its Dependencies, 1st edition, 1: 244].
Onlaf [Rogers Ruding 1817 Annals of the Coinage of Britain and its Dependencies, 1st edition, 1: 244].
Aleif [Rogers Ruding 1817 Annals of the Coinage of Britain and its Dependencies, 1st edition, 1: 291].
Aleof [Rogers Ruding 1817 Annals of the Coinage of Britain and its Dependencies, 1st edition, 1: 291].
Alef [Rogers Ruding 1817 Annals of the Coinage of Britain and its Dependencies, 1st edition, 1: 306].
Vnlof [Sir Henry Ellis 1833 A General Introduction to Domesday Book 2: 261].
Olaf [Joseph Stevenson 1841 Liber Vitæ Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis, page 4].
Olafar [Joseph Stevenson 1841 Liber Vitæ Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis, page 49].
Anlâf [Ludwig Ettmüller 1851 Vorda vealhstôd Engla and Seaxna, page 13].
Unlâf [Ludwig Ettmüller 1851 Vorda vealhstôd Engla and Seaxna, page 13].
Ôleifr [Ludwig Ettmüller 1851 Vorda vealhstôd Engla and Seaxna, page 13].
Olave [Guðbrandur Vigfússon 1874 An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, page iii].
Ólafr [Guðbrandur Vigfússon 1874 An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, page xxxiv].
Anleifr [Guðbrandur Vigfússon 1874 An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, page 471].
Áleifr [Guðbrandur Vigfússon 1874 An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, page 471].
Áláfr [Guðbrandur Vigfússon 1874 An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, page 471].
Áláfar [Guðbrandur Vigfússon 1874 An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, page 471].
Óláfr [Guðbrandur Vigfússon 1874 An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, page 471].
Anlâf [Guðbrandur Vigfússon 1874 An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, page 471].
Amlabh [Guðbrandur Vigfússon 1874 An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, page 471].
Olafr [Henry Harrison 1907-1918 Surnames of the United Kingdom 2: 235].
Óleifr [Dorothy Whitelock 1945 Saga-Book 12: 147].
Oláfr [Percy Reaney 1958 A Dictionary of Surnames, 1st edition, page 208].
Ānlāf [Jan de Vries 1962 Altnordisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, 2nd edition, page 96].
Ālæifʀ [Lena Peterson 2007 Nordiskt runnamnslexikon, page 22]
Ōlafʀ [Lena Peterson 2007 Nordiskt runnamnslexikon, page 172].
Ōlæifʀ [Lena Peterson 2007 Nordiskt runnamnslexikon, page 173].
Aleifr [Ann Williams & Geoffrey Martin 2002 Domesday Book 2: 909].
Prototheme:
*anu = ancestor [Gillian Jensen 1968 Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, page 342].
Deuterotheme:
-leifr, -láfr = inheritance, son [Gillian Jensen 1968 Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, page 350].
Usage:
A man called Unlof held land in Nottinghamshire during the reign of King Eadweard III (the Confessor): “In Lᴇɴᴛᴠɴᴇ . ħᵬ Vnlof . ɪɪɪɪ . bou͛ t͛ræ ad glᵭ” [John Morris 1977 Domesday Book 28 (Nottinghamshire): chapter 10, paragraph 24]: “In Lentune (Lenton) Unlof had four oxgangs of land to be taxed” [William Bawdwen 1809 Dom Boc 1 (Nottinghamshire): 371].
