Message: "My column on Alfred"

My column on Alfred

by clevelandkentevans

10/23/2022, 12:37 PM

Here is the link to today's column. I was a bit suprised to see just how popular Alfred is now in Sweden and Denmark.

https://omaha.com/lifestyles/cleveland-evans-alfred-not-as-weird-as-some-may-think/article_b86b7998-4ff4-11ed-b148-e787a827c1cf.html

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- thegriffon

12/15/2022, 1:50 PM

Alfred is the contemporaneous Latinised form of his Old English name, as used on coinage. By analogy with his brothers (who ALL had names beginning with Aþel-) his original name must have been Aeþelfriþ, not Aelfræd, like the German bishop. Al-/Ael- is a common abbreviation of Aþel- and Alfred is simply the shorter, more convenient Latin form. I'm assuming Altfrid is a copyist error or folk etymology?

- elbowin

10/24/2022, 3:14 AM

Alfred is a character from 'Emil i Lönneberga', and despite being only a farm-hand, he is the only one who understands Emil well.

- )( (guest)

10/23/2022, 8:24 PM

That's very interesting! I'm surprised on how popular it's there too.

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