Foldhere
Foldhere is an Anglo-Saxon masculine name composed of (the stem of) folde (earth) and here (army), cognate with Norse Fuldarr.
Variants:
Fulder [Benjamin Thorpe 1865 Diplomatarium Anglicum Ævi Saxonici, page 434].
Folthhere [William Searle 1897 Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum, page 243].
Foldhere [Henry Harrison 1907-1918 Surnames of the United Kingdom 1: 143].
Prototheme:
folde = earth [Henry Sweet 1886 The Oldest English Texts, page 579].
Deuterotheme:
army = here [Charlotte Yonge 1863 History of Christian Names, 1st edition, 2: 406].
Usage:
“☧ Her swutelaðon ymb þa foreward þe wæron geworhte betwux þam hirede on Wihgeraceastre ⁊ Fuldre” (“☧ Here is made known concerning the compacts that were made between the convent at Worcester and Fulder”) [Benjamin Thorpe 1865 Diplomatarium Anglicum Ævi Saxonici, page 434].
