#deorlaf

[sapphicusincorrectus]

Deorlaf: How can you fight your own people?

Geadric: Anyone who fights us is either stupid or on Aelfred's payroll. Killing the latter is business. Killing the former is a favor to the universe.

Source: Mass Effect

[svarttrost]

Our dear Bishop Deorlaf accurately representing all us Eivwhores everywhere.

[anglosaxonpersonalnames]

Deorlaf

Deorlaf is an Anglo-Saxon masculine name composed of deor (dear) and laf (legacy), cognate with feminine Icelandic Dýrleif.

Variants:

Deorlaf [John Kemble 1840 Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici 2: 6].

Diorlaf [Walter Birch 1883-1893 Cartularium Saxonicum 2: 123].

Diorlafus [Walter Birch 1883-1893 Cartularium Saxonicum 2: 123].

Dēorlāf [Henry Sweet 1886 The Oldest English Texts, page 588].

Deorlāf [Henry Sweet 1886 The Oldest English Texts, page 618].

Deórláf [Henry Harrison 1907-1918 Surnames of the United Kingdom 1: 112].

Déorláf [Oswin Kinsey 2016 English Compound Names, 2nd edition, page 53].

Note:

Diorlafus is a Latinized form.

Prototheme:

deor = dear [Sharon Turner 1836 The History of the Anglo-Saxons from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest, 6th edition, 2: 490].

Deuterotheme:

laf = a relic, legacy [Benjamin Thorpe 1845 A History of England under the Saxon Kings 1: 281].

Usage:

Deorlaf was the name of a Bishop of Hereford [William Searle 1899 Anglo-Saxon Bishops, Kings and Nobles, page 110]. He witnessed a charter issued by King Burgræd of Mercia in 866: “✠ Ego Deorlaf consensi ⁊ subscripsi” [John Kemble 1840 Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici 2: 82 (number 292)].

[faithfulcat111]

Character Profile Series - Deorlaf from AC Valhalla

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