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Subject: Re: HELP! name searching.
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Greetings from Arval!

Ulf wrote:

> I have a friend here who goes by the handle of "Werewolf" and has had his
> name legally changed to "Wolf". He likes to make people edgy. Some people
> are proud of their misdeeds.... Now, I am not speaking from a researched
> point of view, but I would assume that the Norse were not too different
> than we are today.

Why would you assume that?  Consider any art, craft, science, philosophy,
religion, etc., and compare it's 11th century form to its modern form.  Not
surprisingly, a millenium has brough radical changes in every part of life.
It would be astounding if 11th century attitudes toward personal names were
the same as modern attitudes.  In fact, they differed in many fundamental
ways that we can identify, and probably in many more that we cannot.  It is
our hope that by imitating what we know they did, we can learn things about
how and why they did them.

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Arval Benicoeur                                       [e-mail]