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Pages in category "Swedish masculine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 235 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Swedish jarls were powerful men, such as Birger Brosa, Ulf Fase, and Birger Jarl (original patronym Magnusson), and often the true rulers of the Swedish kingdom. [1] After the death of Birger Jarl, the title was replaced by that of a duke (Swedish: hertig) in the 13th century. [3] The first duke was Birger Jarl's son Magnus (later known as ...
Swedish masculine given names (235 P) Pages in category "Scandinavian masculine given names" The following 108 pages are in this category, out of 108 total.
Olga Pankova/Getty Images. This girl name of Old Norse origin has a vintage feel and a meaning of “beautiful and feminine.” Bless. 16. Elsa. Meaning: “Joyful” and “noble.”
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Jarl is a rank of the nobility in Scandinavia.In Old Norse, it meant "chieftain", particularly a chieftain set to rule a territory in a king's stead. Jarl could also mean a sovereign prince.
This was a period which produced a myriad of two-word Swedish family names for the nobility; very favoured prefixes were Adler– (German for 'eagle'), Ehren– (German for 'honor', Swedish ära), Silfver– ('silver') and Gyllen– or Gylden-('golden' or 'gilded'). Unlike a British peerage title ("Lord Somewhere"), such a name became the new ...
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