Æðelstan

Derived from the Old English elements æðel "noble" and stan "stone". This was the name of an early king of England. The name was rarely used after the Norman conquest.

• Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England, available from http://www.pase.ac.uk/jsp/index.jsp
  
• William George Searle, Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum (1897), page 51
  

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