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Subject: Re: EDWARD THE EXILE, Please clarify for me
Date: 9 Jun 1995 11:08:54 GMT
> >takes baby Edward and brother Edmund to Sweden (where they were wards of
> ^^^^^^
> Is this name right? I don't remember off hand, but it was extremely
> unusual to have a son named for the father in Anglo-Saxon England.
>
Maybe he was born posthumous? Edmund Ironside died 1016, what do we
know about the time of birth for his sons?
It was a rule to name a son after his father if, and only if, the father had died prior to
the child's birth. This was the case in Scandinavia, what about AS England?
Anders
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