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Melda Hund tritt auf Listenplatz 17 einer Ein-Themen-Partei in Nordrhein-Westfalen zur Bundestagswahl an. Sie will aber gar nicht gewählt werden.

Melda Hund möchte hier gar keinen Sitz erhalten Foto: dpa

BERLIN taz | Ihre Bücher haben das Zeug, echte Leckerbissen zu werden. „Ich arbeite“, sagt Melda Hundt, „an ungefähr 14 Themengebieten zur Zeit und einige davon werden auch Bücher.“

Was die Bundestagskandidatin (23) aus Reichshof-Eckenhagen vorschlägt, ist eine wirkliche Alternative: Sich selbst. Das gute daran ist: Man kann Melda Hund quasi bekommen, ohne sie wählen zu müssen. Und man muss sie nicht erst verstehen, um sie lieben zu dürfen.

Es wäre auch relativ aussichtslos, Melda Hund zu wählen. Denn mit dem Listenplatz 17 auf der nordrhein-westfälischen Landesliste der Grundeinkommenspartei (BEG) würde die 23-Jährige („Ich verabschiede mich vorläufig aus der Politik“) ja auch dann kein Bundestagsmandat erhalten, wenn sie überhaupt wollte.

Und so ist die Bundestagskandidatin eine der wenigen in der Republik, die offen bekundet: „Ich möchte gar nicht mehr in den Bundestag gewählt werden.“ Es gibt jedoch einen Unterschied zu Spaßparteien wie der „Partei“, die für sich offen reklamiert, von morgens bis abends Unsinn erzählen zu dürfen: Melda Hund tritt für die Grundeinkommenspartei an, die die Hartz-IV-Sanktionen abschaffen und im Parlament für das Bedingungslose Grundeinkommen kämpfen will.

Die Idee eines Bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens wird parteiübergreifend von durchaus vielen Menschen unterstützt und findet sowohl in der Linkspartei bis hinein in die FDP Anhänger. Deshalb war es in der Szene auch umstritten, ob eine aussichtslose Ein-Themen-Partei dem Anliegen wohl er schadet oder wirklich nützt.

Weil der Westdeutsche Rundfunk auf dieser Seite einen wirklich großartigen „Kandidatencheck“ anbietet, bei dem nahezu sämtliche nordrhein-westfälische Bundestagskandidaten, auch die vermeintlich aussichtslosen, in kurzen Videos nach ihren Positionen befragt werden, kann hier jeder für sich selbst beantworten, ob Melda Hund ernst meint was sie sagt (und was zu befürchten steht).

Die resolute und ruhige junge Frau, die ihre Fragenstellerin zurecht weist, wann diese welche Fragen stellen darf, wirbt im Kern für eine große Politik im Kleinen: Es ist letztlich ein radikales Plädoyer für die Selbstachtung, das Respekt verdient.

„Ich denke, die Friedensschaffung vollzieht sich jeden Tag in jeder Handlung und in Situationen, wie ich den Situationen begegne und in meinen Gedanken.“

Ordnung ins Universum bringen

„Wenn ich Ordnung in mein kleines Universum bringe, dann habe ich damit schon etwas sehr wichtiges getan.“

Befragt nach Terror und innerer Sicherheit sagt sie: „Meine persönliche Lösung ist es, die Menschen an die Selbstliebe zu erinnern, in die Selbstliebe zu gehen und die Selbstliebe für sich zu entdecken.“

Befragt nach der Kluft zwischen Reichen und Armen, fragt sie (sich): „Wie ist mein Konsumverhalten? Welche Einstellung habe ich zu Reichtum?“

Und danach gefragt, wie die Grundeinkommenspolitikerin sich die Rente der Zukunft vorstellt, sagt sie: „Ich glaube nicht an die Rente.“ Sie habe gut zu tun. Allein schon: die Buchprojekte.

Nun freut sich Melda Hund auf das Eye-Contact-Experiment am 23. September, einen Tag vor der Bundestagswahl. An diesem Tag sollen sich rund um die Welt Menschen in der Öffentlichkeit lange in die Augen schauen, um sich besser zu erkennen. Außerdem schlägt ihr Herz, so steht es auch auf der Homepage, für ihre „[voraussichtlich in den nächsten Jahren entstehende] autofiktionale Biographie“.

Das Projekt mit der Autofiktion

Bei Autofiktion handelt es sich laut dem Lexikon der Filmbegriffe um ein Genre, „das eine spezifische skeptische, auf der Entzifferung des Zusammens von Wissens, Aufrichtigkeit basierende Lektürehaltung gestattet.“ Es geht dabei um ein Spiel mit Authentizität und Wahrheit.

Und so stellt sich ganz einfach die Frage: Wer ist Melda Hund? Wer wird sie sein? Und ist Melda Hund überhaupt echt?

Es mangelt in der Geschichte des deutschen Parlamentarismus schließlich nicht an Vorlagen. Der SPD-Abgeordnete Jakob Maria Mierscheid zum Beispiel ist eine Figur, von der viele bis heute noch (nicht) glauben, dass sie seit 1979 im Deutschen Bundestag sitzt, obwohl dort sogar eine Brücke nach ihm benannt ist.

Und man muss anerkennen, was anzuerkennen ist – dieser Hund-Satz könnte ein Mierscheid-Satz sein: „Ich möchte mich vorläufig aus der Politik verabschieden und werde vielleicht am Rande noch als Informationsträger vorhanden sein.“

Das ist ehrlich, sympathisch – und auch irgendwie: wahr.

Martin Kaul

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Melda Hund tritt auf Listenplatz 17 einer Ein-Themen-Partei in Nordrhein-Westfalen zur Bundestagswahl an. Sie will aber gar nicht gewählt werden.

Melda Hund möchte hier gar keinen Sitz erhalten Foto: dpa

BERLIN taz | Ihre Bücher haben das Zeug, echte Leckerbissen zu werden. „Ich arbeite“, sagt Melda Hundt, „an ungefähr 14 Themengebieten zur Zeit und einige davon werden auch Bücher.“

Was die Bundestagskandidatin (23) aus Reichshof-Eckenhagen vorschlägt, ist eine wirkliche Alternative: Sich selbst. Das gute daran ist: Man kann Melda Hund quasi bekommen, ohne sie wählen zu müssen. Und man muss sie nicht erst verstehen, um sie lieben zu dürfen.

Es wäre auch relativ aussichtslos, Melda Hund zu wählen. Denn mit dem Listenplatz 17 auf der nordrhein-westfälischen Landesliste der Grundeinkommenspartei (BEG) würde die 23-Jährige („Ich verabschiede mich vorläufig aus der Politik“) ja auch dann kein Bundestagsmandat erhalten, wenn sie überhaupt wollte.

Und so ist die Bundestagskandidatin eine der wenigen in der Republik, die offen bekundet: „Ich möchte gar nicht mehr in den Bundestag gewählt werden.“ Es gibt jedoch einen Unterschied zu Spaßparteien wie der „Partei“, die für sich offen reklamiert, von morgens bis abends Unsinn erzählen zu dürfen: Melda Hund tritt für die Grundeinkommenspartei an, die die Hartz-IV-Sanktionen abschaffen und im Parlament für das Bedingungslose Grundeinkommen kämpfen will.

Die Idee eines Bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens wird parteiübergreifend von durchaus vielen Menschen unterstützt und findet sowohl in der Linkspartei bis hinein in die FDP Anhänger. Deshalb war es in der Szene auch umstritten, ob eine aussichtslose Ein-Themen-Partei dem Anliegen wohl er schadet oder wirklich nützt.

Weil der Westdeutsche Rundfunk auf dieser Seite einen wirklich großartigen „Kandidatencheck“ anbietet, bei dem nahezu sämtliche nordrhein-westfälische Bundestagskandidaten, auch die vermeintlich aussichtslosen, in kurzen Videos nach ihren Positionen befragt werden, kann hier jeder für sich selbst beantworten, ob Melda Hund ernst meint was sie sagt (und was zu befürchten steht).

Die resolute und ruhige junge Frau, die ihre Fragenstellerin zurecht weist, wann diese welche Fragen stellen darf, wirbt im Kern für eine große Politik im Kleinen: Es ist letztlich ein radikales Plädoyer für die Selbstachtung, das Respekt verdient.

„Ich denke, die Friedensschaffung vollzieht sich jeden Tag in jeder Handlung und in Situationen, wie ich den Situationen begegne und in meinen Gedanken.“

Ordnung ins Universum bringen

„Wenn ich Ordnung in mein kleines Universum bringe, dann habe ich damit schon etwas sehr wichtiges getan.“

Befragt nach Terror und innerer Sicherheit sagt sie: „Meine persönliche Lösung ist es, die Menschen an die Selbstliebe zu erinnern, in die Selbstliebe zu gehen und die Selbstliebe für sich zu entdecken.“

Befragt nach der Kluft zwischen Reichen und Armen, fragt sie (sich): „Wie ist mein Konsumverhalten? Welche Einstellung habe ich zu Reichtum?“

Und danach gefragt, wie die Grundeinkommenspolitikerin sich die Rente der Zukunft vorstellt, sagt sie: „Ich glaube nicht an die Rente.“ Sie habe gut zu tun. Allein schon: die Buchprojekte.

Nun freut sich Melda Hund auf das Eye-Contact-Experiment am 23. September, einen Tag vor der Bundestagswahl. An diesem Tag sollen sich rund um die Welt Menschen in der Öffentlichkeit lange in die Augen schauen, um sich besser zu erkennen. Außerdem schlägt ihr Herz, so steht es auch auf der Homepage, für ihre „[voraussichtlich in den nächsten Jahren entstehende] autofiktionale Biographie“.

Das Projekt mit der Autofiktion

Bei Autofiktion handelt es sich laut dem Lexikon der Filmbegriffe um ein Genre, „das eine spezifische skeptische, auf der Entzifferung des Zusammens von Wissens, Aufrichtigkeit basierende Lektürehaltung gestattet.“ Es geht dabei um ein Spiel mit Authentizität und Wahrheit.

Und so stellt sich ganz einfach die Frage: Wer ist Melda Hund? Wer wird sie sein? Und ist Melda Hund überhaupt echt?

Es mangelt in der Geschichte des deutschen Parlamentarismus schließlich nicht an Vorlagen. Der SPD-Abgeordnete Jakob Maria Mierscheid zum Beispiel ist eine Figur, von der viele bis heute noch (nicht) glauben, dass sie seit 1979 im Deutschen Bundestag sitzt, obwohl dort sogar eine Brücke nach ihm benannt ist.

Und man muss anerkennen, was anzuerkennen ist – dieser Hund-Satz könnte ein Mierscheid-Satz sein: „Ich möchte mich vorläufig aus der Politik verabschieden und werde vielleicht am Rande noch als Informationsträger vorhanden sein.“

Das ist ehrlich, sympathisch – und auch irgendwie: wahr.

Martin Kaul

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Some Early Middle High German Bynames

with Emphasis on Names from the Bavarian Dialect Area

Brian M. Scott

© 2004 by Brian M. Scott; all rights reserved.

Introduction

The basis for this list is Chapter XIX, Übernamen, of Adolf Socin's Mittelhochdeutsches Namenbuch, which treats bynames of nickname type. From that collection I began by discarding all citations dated after 1240 except those referring to someone also named in a citation dated 1240 or earlier. (Undoubtedly some of the undated citations are actually early enough to have been included, but since I cannot be sure which, I have preferred to exclude all of them.)

I also deleted citations tagged by Socin with a question mark. For some bynames this left only fully Latinized citations; in those cases I have added in parentheses one or two of the earliest German citations, if any. I also added any citations of these names dated 1240 or earlier in Josef Karlmann Brechenmacher's Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Deutschen Familiennamen; each of these is followed in parentheses by the headword under which it is found in Brechenmacher. Finally, I added some early southeastern citations found on page 268 of Socin.

I have tried to be sure that all citations are from the High German dialects. The majority are from the Upper German dialect areas, Alemannic in the southwest and Bavarian in the southeast, though some are Middle German. I have not tried to localize every citation, but those that I know to be from the Bavarian dialect region are marked ‘(*)’.

Headwords entirely in upper-case are normalized Middle High German (MHG) forms. A few of these are preceded by an asterisk; this indicates that I did not find the actual word in any available MHG references but that I am confident that it is properly constructed from attested MHG elements. If I was not certain of the normalized MHG form, I used one of the cited forms as headword, capitalizing only the first letter. Note that normalized MHG includes some editorial diacritical marks: long vowels are indicated by a circumflex, and a variety of <e> with a particular historical origin is indicated with a diaresis.

Abbreviations and Special Notations

MHG: Middle High German

MLat: Medieval Latin

NHG: New High German

OHG: Old High German

[ ]: Square brackets around a symbol indicate that it appears directly above the preceding letter in the original.

The Bynames

Identifiable Bynames

ALT: 'old', usually for the elder of two; Lat senex ‘old, aged’.

• Henricus senex 11th c. (*)
• Theodericus Senex 1178 (ALT)
• Hermann Senex 1222 (ALT)
• (alt Burgi 1283)
• (der alte Sphet 1283)

ANGEST: ‘affliction, distress, trouble; worry, anxiety, fear’; can also signify the condition in which one sees oneself surrounded by difficulty and danger, even if one calmly accepts it or vigorously combats it. Lat anceps ‘doubtful, extremely hazardous’; NHG Angst.

• Henricus qui dicitur Angist ca.1200
• Ruodegerus cognomento Angist ca.1200 (ANGST)
• Henricus qui dicitur Angist ca.1200 (ANGST)
• Rudolfus Anceps 1215 (ANGST)

BART: ‘a beard’, Lat barba; all except the last actually represent mit dem Bart ‘with the beard’.

• Heinricus cum Barba ca.1100
• Ego comes de Urach dictus mit dem Bart 1236
• Albero cum barba 1135 (BART)
• Heriman Barbatus 1135 (BART)
• Ellinus cum barba 1158 (BART)
• Albero qui dicitur Bart 1183 (BART)
• Heinric Part 1180 (*)

BLÂTERE: ‘pocks, pustules’; NHG Blatter.

• Johannes qui Blatre est cognominatus 1219

Bluscichof: The second element is MHG kopf, koph ‘a head’; I have not identified the first element, but according to Socin the sense of the byname is ‘obstinacy, stubbornness, mulishness; a mule’.

• Cunradus Bluscichof 1196

Bulstrich: Possibly analogous to MHG bûlslac ‘a blow that causes a swelling’, from slac ‘a blow’ and bûl, related to biule ‘a swelling’; if so, the second element is strîch ‘a stroke, a blow’. The second element could also be strich ‘a line’, in which case the byname might refer to a weal of some sort.

• Conradus Bulstrich 1226

BUOLE: ‘a close relative; a lover’; buollîn is a diminutive. NHG Buhle ‘paramour, lover’, now obsolete except in literary usage.

• Bertolfus Buole 1178 (BUHL)
• Waltherus Bu[o]elin 1214

Chastelose: Perhaps from MHG kaste ‘a chest, a container’ and -lôs ‘-less’; for a poor man (or, ironically, a wealthy man)?

• O[v]dalric Chastelose 1149

Chegere: Possibly from MHG kegen 'to drag, to haul', 'a hauler'.

• Hugo Chegere 1223 = Hugo der Chegir 1233

ENINKEL: ‘grandchild, grandson’; NHG Enkel.

• Wernherus Enchili 1203
• Adelbero Eincelin [also Enkillin, Enkiln] 1135 (ENKEL)

ESEL: ‘a donkey, an ass’, Lat asinus.

• Albertus Asinus ca.1190
• Conradus dictus Esel ca.1240
• Berwich Esel 1135 (ESEL)
• Waltherus de Dürrheim qui vocatur Esil 1183 (ESEL)
• Albertus Asinus 1185 (ESEL)

Eselin: MHG eselîn ‘a she-ass’ or esellîn ‘a small ass’; perhaps the latter is more likely here.

• Heinricus de Rinfelden Eselin dictus 1240

*GEIZRIBE: From MHG geiz ‘a goat’ and ribe, ribbe, rippe ‘a rib’; however, the compound is apparently another name for the yarrow or millefolium, like NHG Schafrippe ‘sheep-rib’.

• Cu[o]nradus . dictus Geizriebe 1239

GELÜCKE: ‘fortune, fate; chance; favorable outcome’, Lat felicitas ‘luck, piece of luck; felicity, happiness’. However, gelücke is attested only from the 12th century, and it is possible that Felicitas represents some other word. NHG Glück.

• Johannes Felicitas 1210

GENUFTING: ‘(male) relative, cousin, nephew’.

• Genufting (de Raderai) 1190 = Gnifting 1216
• Herm. Genuftinc 1204 (GNIFTING)

GËRSTBRÎ: ‘barley porridge’; NHG Gerstenbrei.

• Heinricus de Westerburch cognomento Gerestebri 1190 (*)

GÎR: ‘a vulture’, popularly used of any large bird of prey; NHG Geier.

• Bernhardus Gir 1190 (*)

GLOCKELÎN, GLÖCKELÎN: ‘a small bell’, dim. of glocke, glogge ‘a bell’; NHG Glöckchen, with a different dim. suffix.

• H. Glogili 1229 = Heinricus dictus Gloggili 1243 = H. Glogli

GRÔZ: ‘big, large’, Lat magnus, but the primary connotation of the byname is ‘tall’; NHG groß.

• Co[v]nradus qui dicebatur Groze 1220
• Ruodegerus cognomine Magnus 1234 (GROß)

GUOT: ‘good’, as a byname in the sense ‘friendly, pleasant, mild-mannered’; NHG gut.

• Lantfridus cognominatus bonus Lanzo 1070 (*) [‘called good Lanzo’, Lanzo being a pet form of Lantfrid]
• Herimannus Bonus 1170 (GUT)
• Herimannus filius Herimanni Boni 1197 (GUT)
• Hermannus dictus der Guot 1236 (GUT)

GUOTMAN: ‘a good man, an honest man’, Lat bonus homo ‘good person’; also used of the class of free men serving under arms from whom the knightly class recruited.

• Borcardus Bonushomo 1226
• Burchardus Guotman 1200 (GUTMANN)

Hadrarius: Apparently a Latinization of MHG *haderære, a nomina agentis from the verb hadern ‘to argue, to quarrel, to squabble; to tease (between lovers)’. NHG Haderer ‘grumbler’.

• Enze Hadrarius 1095×1147 (*)

Havenblast: The first element appears to be MHG haven ‘earthenware container, pot’; the second could be blâst ‘a snort, a blowing; flatulence’.

• Rodolfus Havenblast 1214

HELBELINC: ‘1/2 Pfennig’, MLat obolus ‘halfpenny’; perhaps also for one who is not taken seriously.

• Bertoldus Obolus 1212/13
• (Chono Helbelinch 1267 = Cu[o]no dictus Obulus)

HÊRRE, HËRRE: ‘master, lord’; sometimes ironic, and sometimes for a member of the local authority. NHG Herr.

• C. plebanus in Haltingin nomine Herre 1235

HERZOGE: ‘leader of the army; a duke’, Lat dux, usually for one who was in charge of some community function (e.g., the dux annonä was responsible for receipt of the grain gathered as tax); occasionally for a role in a play. NHG Herzog.

• Hainricus Dux 1176 = Heinr. dux annonä 1273 (HERZOG)
• Heinrich Dux 1173 (HERZOG)
• Rapoto Dux 1200 (HERZOG) [son of the previous]
• (Bertoldus Dux 1278 = Berchtoldus dictus Herzoge)

HUON: a hen’, dim. huonlîn; Lat pullus ‘a chicken’. NHG Huhn.

• Siffridus Pullus 1207
• Sifridus Pullus 1212 (HUHN)
• Eggehardus Pullus 1217 = Eggeh. Hunekelin 1223 (HÜHNCHEN)
• (Johannes dictus Hu[e]nlin n.d.)
• (Wernherus dictus Hu[e]nli n.d.)

JUNC: ‘young’, originally for the junior of two, or MHG junge ‘a youth, a young man’; Lat juvenis ‘young; a young man’. NHG jung, Junge.

• Cu[o]no miles dictus Juvenis 1239
• Ricolfus Juvenis 1172 (JUNG)
• Gerh. Juvenis 1238 (JUNG)
• (dominus Wernherus dictus Juvenis de Hadesta 1260 = Wernherus de Hadestat dictus Junge 1269)

*KÆSEBIZZE: From MHG kæse ‘cheese’ and bizze ‘closing of the mouth to bite; the piece bitten off’ or possibly bîz ‘act of biting’.

• Adalbret Chasibizze 1095×1143 (*)
• Ortlip cognomento Chæsbize 12th c. (*)

KINT: ‘a child’, Lat puer ‘a boy, a lad’; NHG Kind.

• Burchardus Puer 1129 = Burchardus qui cognominatur Puer 1146
• Burkardus Puer 1199
• Cu[o]nradus qui cognomine Chint dicitur 1202
• Heidenricus cognomento Puer 1206 (KIND)

*KLINGELVUOZ: ‘clink-foot’, from the practice of wearing small bells on the turned-up toes of one's shoes; the Latinization sonipes is from sonare ‘to sound, to ring’, sonus ‘a sound, a noise’, or the like, and pes ‘a foot’. Modern surnames based on this idea include Klinke(r)fuß and Klingelfuß. This suggests that there were two slightly different underlying MHG forms, and Sonipes may represent the other one.

• Henricus Sonipes 1190×1202

KLOBELOUCH, KNOBELOUCH: ‘garlic’; NHG Knoblauch.

• Burhardus Clobelouch 1197
• Gotfrid Chnobolohe 1165 = Kloweloch (KNOBLAUCH)
• Cunr. Clobeloch 1223 (KNOBLAUCH)

KÔLHUPFER: ‘a grasshopper’, OHG côlhopfo, literally ‘cabbage-hopper’.

• Bertholdus qui dicebatur Colhoppho 1189
• Heinricus Colophus 1192

KRAPFE: ‘a hook, a clamp’, OHG chrapho, or an identical word meaning ‘a kind of deep-fried cake, a doughnut’.

• Algotus Crapho 1220

KRÖUWEL: ‘a fork with hook-shaped tines; a hook for grabbing or dragging’.

• Conradus Crowel 1240 = Cunradus Crewil ca.1240
• Hermannus Crouwil = Crowil = Crowel = Croel 1150×60 (KREU(E)L)

KUPFERHELBELINC: From MHG kupfer ‘copper’ and helbelinc ‘1/2 Pfennig’.

• Godefridus cognominatus Cupferhelbeling 1201

KURZ: ‘short’.

• Hesso Kurze 1240 = Hesso Curzo ca.1240 = dominus Hesso dictus Kurze 1262
• Waltherus Kurzo miles 1214

Landœse: From MHG lant ‘land, earth, region’ and oesen, ôsen ‘to make empty, to exhaust’; literally something like ‘land-waste’, and the sense is ‘one who

ravages or lays waste the land’.

• Walterus Landœse 1226

Leckelere: Apparently related to MHG lëcker ‘a sponger, a freeloader; a glutton; a clown, a buffoon’.

• Dietricus miles dictus der Leckelere 1240

MARSCHALC: ‘a farrier, a groom’, later a high official; NHG Marschall.

• Wernherus probus Marschalcus 1233
• Heythenricus qui dicitur Marescalcus 1172 (MARSCHALL)

MÂZE: ‘measure, moderation, appropriateness, adequacy’, for a person who behaves in a measured, moderate fashion.

• Rudolfus Maze 1200 (*)

MËLDE: ‘betrayal; slander, calumny; boasting; rumor, general gossip, both good and bad’.

• Richper Melde = Richpert Melda 1095×1147 (*)

MÜNECH, MÜNICH, MÜNCH, MUNCH: ‘a monk’, MLat monachus; often a nickname rather than a literal description. NHG Mönch.

• C. Monachus de Basilea 1191
• Hugo Monachus 1185×90 = Hugo advocatus cognomine Monachus 1203
• Herm. Monachus 1135 (MÖNCH)
• Albertus qui dicitur Monachus 1204 (MÖNCH) [a farmer]
• Gottfridus Monachus 1218 (MÜNCH)
• Conr. Munachus 1226 (MÜNCH) [a layman]
• (her Gunter der Munech von Basele 1262)
• (der Mu[']nich von Berstette 1263)
• (Heinricus dictus Mu[']nch 1275)
• (der Münich von Bischofesheim 1263)

NÔTHAFT: ‘needy, living in poverty; oppressed’.

• Albertus Nothaft 1182 (*)
• Grimoldus dictus Nothaft 1182 (NOTHAFT)

*NÔTÎSEN: From MHG nôt ‘hardship, trouble; need; pressing reason’ and îsen ‘iron’; a byname for a smith, but the sense is not clear to me.

• Eberhardus cognomento Nothisen 1200
• Eberh. Nothisen 1197 (NOTHEISEN)
• Albero Nothisin 1209 (NOTHEISEN)

PHAFFE: From OHG phaffo ‘a cleric, a priest’; NHG Pfaffe (now pejorative).

• Heinricus Phapho 1226 = Heinricus Clericus miles 1233 = Henricus dir Phaffo miles 1241 [‘the priest’]

Rebil: Perhaps MHG rebell ‘rebellious’, but perhaps a dim. of the forename Raban, Rab or of MHG rabe ‘a raven’.

• Manegoldus Rebil 1200

RÎCHE, RÎCH, RICH: ‘rich, wealthy’, originally ‘powerful, mighty, noble’; Lat dives ‘rich’. NHG reich.

• Chu[o]nradus Dives 1193
• dives Petrus ca.1181
• R. Dives 1166×79
• Rodolfus Dives 1207
• Rodolfus Dives miles 1214
• Ru[o]dolfus Divitis 1226
• Ulricus Dives 1174
• Gerlacus Dives 1170 (REICH)
• Chuono Dives 1180 (REICH)
• (Henricus dictus Dives 1262 = dominus H. dictus Riche miles 1271)
• (Henricus dictus der Riche 1275

RÔT: ‘red’, Lat rufus ‘red; red-haired’; NHG rot.

• Cunradus Rufus scriptor episcopi 1200
• Drutwinus Rufus 1161
• Wernerus et Burchardus qui dicuntur Roten 1237 [plural here]
• Wernherus Rufus 1237
• Richardus Rufus 1113 (ROTH)
• Albero Rufus 1142 (ROTH)
• Arnoldus Rufus 1175 (ROTH)
• Herolt der Rote 1188 (ROTH)
• Henricus rufus 11th c. (*)

Ruber: Perhaps Lat ruber ‘red’, representing MHG rôt, but perhaps a bad spelling of MHG roubære ‘a robber’ (see above for both).

• A. Ruber 1239

SATEL: ‘a saddle’, MLat sella; NHG Sattel.

• Wernerus Satel ministeriales 1228
• miles cognomine Sella 1227 (SATTEL)

Scaphili: Probably MHG schæfelîn, a dim. of schâf ‘a sheep’, but perhaps a dim. of scha(p)f ‘container for fluids, a barrel, a tub’.

• Burchardus Scaflinus 12th c.
• Ulrich Scaphili 1155
• Ulr. Schafli [also Schafelinus] 1226 (SCHÄFLE(IN))

SCHADE: ‘one who harms, an opponent, an adversay’.

• Cho[v]nrat Scade 1180
• Heinric Scado 1188
• dominus Ru[o]dolfus nobilis dictus Schade de Randegge 1225
• Frid. Schado 1213 (SCHAD)
• Ditericus Schado 1230 (SCHAD)

SCHËCKE: ‘a striped or quilted coat’; also an adj., ‘striped, spotted’.

• Fridericus Schecho 1177
• Gotfridus Scheccho 1233 = Gotefridus dictus Shecho 1262
• miles Cuonr. cognomine Schecco 1209 (SCHECK)
• Gerungus Scheko 1223 (SCHECK)

SCHIFFELÎN, SCHËFFELÎN: Dim. of schif, schëf ‘a ship’; NHG Schiffchen, with a different dim. suffix.

• O[v]dalric Schiphili 1149
• Otto Siphpheli 1168 = Otto Sipheli 1169 = Sciphili 1172

SCHIRBEN: ‘a fragment of broken crockery’.

• Adilbertus cognomento Scirbin ca.1200

Sellose: Probably MHG sêlelôs ‘without a soul, lifeless’, attested as sellos, but possibly ‘deserted, abandoned’, from selle ‘a companion, a comrade’ and -lôs ‘-less’.

• Sellose 1240
• (Ru[e]dinus dictus Sellos n.d.)

SPANSEIL: ‘a tether, a hobble for horses’; NHG Spannseil.

• Burchardus cognomento Spanseil 12th c.
• Cunr. Spannseil 1206 (SPAN(N)SEIL(ER))

SPORLÎN: ‘larkspur’, but also simply a dim. of MHG spor ‘a spur’, used for the son of a man with the byname spor.

• Oddo Sporelin, for example, is the son of Conr. Sporo 1150.
• Heinricus de Krozcingen dictus Sporlinus 1238
• Oddo Sporelin 1157 = Otto Sporo (SPÖRLE(IN))
• Heinr. dictus Sporlinus 1234 (SPÖRLE(IN))

Steinmutte: The first element is MHG stein ‘a stone’; the second seems to be mütte, mutte, müt, mut ‘a measure of capacity roughly analogous to a bushel’. The sense as a nickname is not clear.

• Pernoldus Steinmutte 1095×1143 (*)

STROBEL: ‘full of underbrush; unkempt, shaggy’, referring to hair.

• C. Strubel 1240
• Gerungus miles dictus cognomine Strubel 1240

Stullin: Perhaps a dim. of MHG stolle ‘a support, a stand, a post, a foot’ or of stuole ‘a stool, a bench’.

• Anselmus qui cognominabatur Stullin 1122

*SUNNENKALP: literally ‘sun-calf’, this is a name for the ladybird, which was supposed to bring good luck; from MHG sunne ‘sun’ and kalp ‘a calf’. NHG Sonnenkalb.

• nobilis vir Algotus Sunnunchalbus 1228
• Conrad Sunnenchalb 1218 (SONNE(N)KALB)
• Adelgoß cognomento Sunnunchalp 1220 (SONNE(N)KALB)

SWARZ: ‘black, dark-colored’, Lat niger ‘black’; NHG schwarz.

• Purchart Niger 1145
• Burchardus niger 12th c.
• Cu[o]nradus miles dictus Swarze 1225
• Wernerus Niger 1226
• Burch. Niger 1140 (SCHWARZ)
• Gerhardus Niger 1147 (SCHWARZ)
• Albertus Niger 1159 (SCHWARZ)
• Perhtold Swarze 1200 (SCHWARZ)
• Liutwinus niger 1070×95 (*)
• Hartradus niger 11th c. (*)

TIUVELÎN: Dim. of MHG tiuvel ‘devil’, Lat diabolus; the word is also an adjective meaning ‘fiendish, devilish, stemming from the devil’.

• Rudolfus Divellin 1194 = Rudolfus Tuvillin 1200 = Rudolfus Tivilin 1207<
• Marcmannus Diabolus 1200 (TEUFEL)

TORSE: ‘cabbage-stalk’, for a skinny, gaunt person.

• frater C. Torso 1234
• Cunr. dictus Dorse 1240 (DORß)

VOCHENZE: ‘bread baked at one’s own hearth’; the vochezer did not bake bread to sell, but was permitted only to use grain brought to him by the customer.

• C. Vochince 1239

VUHS: ‘a fox’, Lat vulpes; NHG Fuchs.

• Arnoldus qui Vulpis dicitur 1237 = Arnoldus Vulpes 1242
• Arnolt der Fuhs n.d. [may be the same person]
• Hugo dictus Vulpes 1237
• Daniel cognomine Fu(h)s 1198 (FUCHS)

VÜRSTE: ‘the first, the best, the highest; a ruler; a person of the highest rank after the king’, OHG furisto; NHG Fürst.

• Bertholdus Fursto 1227

Wirsinc: Probably a derivative in -ing of MHG wirs ‘worse’, wirsen ‘to make worse, to damage’, thus, ‘one who is worse’.

• Pertholdus de colle qui et Wirsinch dictus est = Pertholdus de colle qui et Wirsinc 1095×1147 (*)

Wisebegere: ‘white Bavarian’, from MHG wîz ‘white’, Lat albus, and a variant of Beier ‘a Bavarian’.

• Albertus Begero albus 1236 = Albertus Wisebegere miles 1250

ZWIBOLLE, ZIBOLLE: ‘an onion’; NHG Zwiebel.

• Heinricus Zeibil 1226 = Heinricus dictus Zebel n.d. = Heinricus Zebul n.d. = H. Zœbel n.d. = H. Zobel n.d.
• Heinr. Zwivel [and Zwifel] 1185 = Henr. Zwivil

ZAGEL: ‘a tail’, metaphorically also ‘penis’, here with a dim. suffix; can also refer to a piece of land that sticks into another.

• Co[v]nradus Zegilli 1203

Zophilare: Perhaps ‘one who does the zopfen’, a hopping dance step; some connection with zopf, zoph ‘a pigtail, a plait, a braid’ is also imaginable.

• Burchardus Zophilare 12th c.

Latin Only With No Clear MHG Basis

Testa: ‘tile; jug, crock; potsherd; fragment; head’, as a byname probably referring to the head.

• Henricus Testa marscalus 1189

Anglo-Saxon

After the Romans left, Britain was open to invasion by the various Germanic peoples from the Baltic area who had already been making raids on the 'Saxon Shore' in the days of the Empire. Invasions started around 400 AD.

The Saxons were a Germanic tribe from the Danish peninsula and northern Germany. Their territories originally reached as far as the Rhine but Saxony was conquered by Charlemagne in 792. Under pressure from the Franks, they migrated to various parts of Europe including Britain and pursued piracy in the North Sea and English Channel. They settled in Essex, Sussex and Wessex.

The Jutes were a Germanic people who may have originated in the Rhineland, rather than Jutland in Denmark, and later settled in Frankish territory. In around 450 AD, they occupied Kent under Hengist and Horsa and conquered the isle of Wight and the Hampshire coast in the early C6th.

The Angles came from the German/Danish border area, now Schleswig-Holstein and may have been united with the Saxons before invading Britain. They settled largely in East Anglia, Mercia and Northumbria.

By the end of the C6th, the tribal settlements had become seven kingdoms (the Heptarchy) and by the first decade of the C7th, Northumbria was dominant with its king bearing the titles of Rex Anglorum and being accepted as the bretwalda or overlord of the others. Although the tendency is to think of the people that the Normans conquered as 'The Saxons', they were actually a mixture of the various groups and the language now known as Old English, was a combination of several Germanic tongues which developed into Middle English after the second Germanic influx, that of the Norsemen. This took place in several stages, with the Danes arriving by 800 AD and the Norwegians in the north-west by about 900 AD. The third wave of Germanic invasion was that of the Normans. They had only been in France for a few generations but their language and naming system were already heavily influenced, with many old Germanic names taking on 'Normanised' forms.

The kingdoms were eventually united under the kings of Wessex. During the reign of King Alfred in the C9th, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was begun. Written by monks, it provides a record of history from the Roman invasion to 1154 and an illustration of the development of Old English prose.

Anglo-Saxon Rulers

In the Anglo-Saxon period, England was divided into small kingdoms. They are known as the Heptarchy (lit 'rule of seven') as there were usually seven of them although the number varied occasionally due to amalgamations and divisions. They formed a loose confederation under a single king, the most powerful amongst them who was acknowledged as head king or bretwalda and were eventually united under the kings of Wessex.

Bretwaldas (Head Kings)

(According to Bede + later historians)

Northumbria and Bernicia

The kingdom of Northumbria, the most northern of the Saxon Heptarchy, was formed when Bernicia and Deira were united. Its most powerful period was during the C7th under Edwin, Oswald and Oswy but it declined after the latter's death and became part of the Viking kingdom of York after the last recorded king, Egbert II, died around 878.

2 Acha daughter of Aelle of Deira

2 Eanfled of Deira

3 Fina (mistress)

c 651-4 Bernicia

nephew of Eanfrith

3 Aelfthryth of Devon

2 Ethelburga of Kent

This kingdom of the Heptarchy was founded about 527 and annexed to Wessex in 825.

Son of Sigebehrt I

This kingdom in central England between Northumbria and Wessex was founded c 585. It declined after the death of Offa in 796 and was eventually absorbed by Wessex. In 873, King Burhred was driven out by the Danes who settled in East Mercia in 877, leaving West Mercia to Ceolwulf, their puppet king. His reign ended about 883 and Ealdorman Ethelred acknowledged Alfred the Great of Wessex as overlord.

East Anglia

The kings of the East Angles were called the Wuffings after Wuffa who probably founded the kingdom. His grandson Redwald is probably the man buried at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk. The last king was St Edmund who was killed by the Danes in 869.

Before about 449, the founder of the kingdom, Hengest, and his brother, Horsa, were invited to come from Jutland to help the British king, Vortigern, defend himself against the Picts and Scots. The ruling family were called 'Oiscings' after Hengest's son, Oeric Oisc.

2 Emma (Ymme) d of Clothacar (Clotaire) King of the Franks

son of Sebbi of Essex

Son of Wihtred + 3

The kingdom of the West Saxons, founded by Cerdic, expanded to cover most of southern England during the C6th and 7th. Under Egbert (802-39) it also gained control of Northumbria and Mercia. The later kings are also credited as the first kings of all England but Wessex declined after the death of Edgar in 975 and the throne was later lost to Danish invaders.

grandson of Ceawlin

Father of Harold II of England

Gytha, daughter of Jarl Thorgils

The kings of Wessex became overlords of all the Saxon kingdoms and were later recognised as kings of all England with the other kingdoms remaining as earldoms. Princes of the royal family were called 'Athelings' because they descended from Aethelwulf.

2 Judith d of Charles the Bald King of The Franks

2 Aethelflead of Darmerham

3 Aelfthryth/Elfrida d of Ordgar of Devon

2 Emma dau Richard I of Normandy

2 Emma of Normandy

Anglo-Saxon Religion

The Germanic deities who figure in the Old Norse pantheon were also followed by most of the peoples who settled in England although Christianity soon took over. There is literary evidence for many of the same stories and beliefs amongst them although the legend of Ragnarok is exclusive to Scandinavia.

Descendants of Woden

Early historians including Bede and Florence of Worcester trace the descent of the various Anglo-Saxon kings back to Woden.

Middangeard Middle Earth

The year began on 25th December. Boxing night was called modra nect or ‘mother's night’ after the ceremonies that Bede says were performed then.

Anglo-Saxon Names

Dithematic Names

Only a personal name was given. This was often made up of two elements, often linked in some way with the parents' names. For instance, Aldred and Edith might call their daughter Aldith as some elements were suitable for males and females. These dithematic names did not necessarily have any link in meaning between their two elements. They were more popular with the later Anglo-Saxons with the monothematic, or single element, names acquiring a lower-class association.

As the various permutations produced a large number of different names, few duplications would have occurred in a particular settlement. Surnames were not necessary for identification purposes although bynames were sometimes used. It was also considered that a name contained a person's spirit and using it for a new-born child could drain that spirit from him. Although there was no inherited surname, some families (usually aristocratic) were identified by collective name taken from a famous forebear such as the Athelings, Gumeningas, Besingas, Baducings, Guthlacingas, the final ‘-ing’ element signifying ‘people of’.

Name Elements

Some of these were only used as the first or second element of a name but others could occur in either position.

Saxon names were still widely used after the Norman conquest and are found in various forms in written records. In many cases, variant spellings occur, often with the letter ‘v’ represented by ‘u’.

Monothematic Names

Many of these originated as bynames or nicknames and were not always complimentary. They seem to have had a more low-status association than the dithematic or two element names. Forms ending in ‘-el’, ‘ela’ and ‘-la’ are usually diminutives, probably taken from one element of a dithematic name.

Absurd! | Bundestags-Kandidatin will

gar nicht in den Bundestag

Köln – Sie ist derzeit im Netz populärer als FDP-Chef Christian Lindner! Die 23-jährige Melda Hund kandidiert auf der NRW-Landesliste der Mini-Partei „Bündnis Grundeinkommen“.

Doch ihr „Bewerbungsvideo“ im Video-Kandidatencheck des WDR amüsiert seit der Veröffentlichung Menschen in den sozialen Netzwerken. Denn Melda will eigentlich gar nicht in die große Politik der Berliner Republik. Doch hören Sie selbst!

Suchen Internet-Nutzer nach dem WDR-Kandidatencheck, dann bekommen sie aktuell als erstes ein Video einer jungen Frau aus Reichshof-Eckenhagen (Oberbergischer Kreis) angezeigt. Melda Hund ist 23, bezeichnet sich in ihrem WDR-Profil als Kreative.

Bereits ihre erste Antwort auf die Frage, was sie bei Wahl in den Bundestag für Ziele habe, lässt einen schmunzeln: „Ich möchte gar nicht mehr in den Bundestag gewählt werden, weil ich denke, die Friedensschaffung vollzieht sich jeden Tag, in jeder Handlung und in Situationen, wie ich den Situationen begegne und auch in meinen Gedanken.“ Aha.

Doch auch ihre weiteren Antworten hinterlassen bei den Zuschauern Rätsel.

Etwa: Die aktuelle Terror-Bedrohung der inneren Sicherheit ist für Melda Hund „die Manifestation des Hasses in unserer kollektiven Gesellschaft“. Ihr Heilmittel: die Menschen an die Selbstliebe erinnern. Kommen Sie noch mit?

Bundestagswahl

„Ich hatte ein Alt zu viel. “ Besoffener Kölner zerstört 42 Wahlplakate

Praktisch an jedem Baum sind die Wahlplakate abgerissen, betroffen – jede Partei. Der Täter: Ein Kölner, der sich beim Alt verschätzt hatte.

Bizarres „Wettrüsten“ Parteien kleistern Düsseldorf mit 20 000 Plakaten zu!

Gefühlt hängt schon an jedem Düsseldorfer Baum ein Wahl-Plakat! Und bis zur Bundestagswahl sollen es noch viel mehr werden.

Bundestagswahl Diebe stehlen fast 70 Plakate in Leonberg

Gerade erst aufgehängt, schon wieder weg! In Leonberg (Kreis Böblingen) sind fast 70 Wahlplakate verschwunden.

Lachen muss die 23-Jährige, als die Interviewerin sie auf die Rente anspricht: „Ich glaube nicht an die Rente. Ich werde durch mein Wirken mein Leben ermöglichen.“ Laut eigener Aussage arbeite sie derzeit an 14 Themenbereichen. Vielleicht zu viele? Immer wieder schaut die junge Frau auf ihre Notizen, die neben ihr liegen.

Dem Netz ist das egal, sie lieben Melda. Doch mancher unkt bereits: Ist das nicht vielleicht Satire oder Kunst? Hat die PARTEI vielleicht einen Maulwurf beim „Bündnis Grundeinkommen“ eingeschleust?

Zumindest ein Neuzugang ist Melda Hund im Kandidatencheck nicht: Bereits zur Landtagswahl tauchte sie in dem Video-Portal auf, damals jedoch als „Reinigungskraft“ mit einem ganz anderen Look…

Bernard Cornwell

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Saturday, 19 September 2009

Character in Bernrad Cornwell'sSaxon Series: Aldhelm

Stained glass window showing Aldhelm, installed in Malmesbury Abbey in 1928 in memory of Rev. Canon C. D. H. McMillan, Vicar of Malmesbury from 1907 to 1919

In 668, Pope Vitalian sent Theodore of Tarsus to be Archbishop of Canterbury. At the same time the African scholar Hadrian, became abbot of St Augustine's at Canterbury. Aldhelm was one of his disciples, for he addresses him as the 'venerable preceptor of my rude childhood.' He must, nevertheless, have been thirty years of age when he began to study with Hadrian. His studies included Roman law, astronomy, astrology, the art of reckoning and the difficulties of the calendar. He learned, according to the doubtful statements of the early lives, both Greek and Hebrew. He certainly introduces many Latinized Greek words into his works.

Ill health compelled him to leave Canterbury, and he returned to Malmesbury Abbey, where he was a monk under Máeldub for fourteen years, dating probably from 661, and including the period of his studies with Hadrian.

Wall plaque at the Catholic Church of St Aldhelm, Malmesbury. The inscription says 'St Aldhelm 639-709, Abbot of Malmesbury and Bishop of Sherborne, Latin Poet and Ecclesiastical Writer.'

That his merits as a scholar were early recognized in his own country is shown by the encomium of Bede (Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum 5.18), who speaks of him as a wonder of erudition. His fame reached Italy, and at the request of Pope Sergius I he paid a visit to Rome, of which, however, there is no notice in his extant writings. On his return, bringing with him privileges for his monastery and a magnificent altar, he received a popular ovation.

Tithe Barn, Manor Farm, Doulting

Stained glass window showing William, installed in Malmesbury Abbey in 1928 in memory of Rev. Canon C. D. H. McMillan, Vicar of Malmesbury from 1907 to 1919.

Aldhelm: The Prose Works. Trans. Michael Lapidge and Michael Herren. D. S. Brewer, 1979. ISBN 0859910415.