Haraldr
Haraldr is a Norse masculine name composed of her- (army) and valdr (ruler), cognate with Anglo-Saxon Hereweald and Faroese and Icelandic Haraldur.
Variants:
Harold [William Bawdwen 1809 Dom Boc 1 (Introduction): 3].
Haroldus [Sir Henry Ellis 1833 A General Introduction to Domesday Book 1: 433].
Heraldus [Sir Henry Ellis 1833 A General Introduction to Domesday Book 2: 141].
Arald [Joseph Stevenson 1841 Liber Vitæ Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis, page 50].
Haraldr [Guðbrandur Vigfússon 1874 An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, page 239].
Harald [William Searle 1897 Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum, page 279].
Haraldus [Olof von Feilitzen 1937 The Pre-conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, page 284].
Note:
Forms ending with -us are Latinizations.
Prototheme:
Her-, Har- = army [Gillian Jensen 1968 Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, page 344].
Deuterotheme:
-valdr, -valdi, -aldr, -aldi = ruler [Gillian Jensen 1968 Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, page 351].
Usage:
“Sume men sædon be Harolde ꝥ he wære Cnutes sunu cynges and Ælfgiue Ælfelmes dohtor ealdormannes. ac hit þuhte swiðe ungeleaflic manegum mannum. and he wæs þæh full cyng ofer eall Englaland” [John Earle 1865 Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel, 1st edition, page 165, annal (E) 1036]: “Some men said concerning Harold that he was the son of king Knut and of Ælfgifu, daughter of aldorman Ælfhelm, but it seemed quite incredible to many men; and he was nevertheless full king over England” (Edward Gomme 1909 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, page 133, annal 1036 [E]).
