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Æthelberht
Æthelberht, Aethelbert or Ethelbert is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
Æthelred
Æthelred (; ) or Ethelred () is an Old English personal name (a compound of æþele and ræd, meaning "noble counsel" or "well-advised") and may refer to:
Edmund
Edmund is a masculine given name in the English language. The name is derived from the Old English elements ēad, meaning "prosperity" or "riches", and mund, meaning "protector".
Edwin
The name Edwin means "wealth-friend". It comes from (wealth, good fortune) and (friend). Thus the Old English form is Ēadwine, a name widely attested in early medieval England. Edwina is the feminine form of the name.
Sigebert
Sigebert (which means roughly "magnificent victory"), also spelled Sigbert, Sigibert, Sigobert, Sigeberht, or Siegeberht, is the name of:
Alfred
male given name
Acca
Acca or ACCA may refer to:
Edith
Edith is a feminine given name derived from the Old English word , meaning wealth or prosperity, in combination with the Old English , meaning strife, and is in common usage in this form in English, German, many Scandinavian languages and Dutch. Its French form is Édith. Contractions and variations of this name include Ditte, Dita, and Edie.
Ethel
Ethel (also æthel) is an Old English word meaning "noble", today often used as a feminine given name.
Ecgfrith
Ecgfrith () was the name of several Anglo-Saxon kings in England, including:
Eadberht
Eadberht is an Anglo-Saxon male name. It may refer to:
Ælfgifu
Ælfgifu (also Ælfgyfu; Elfgifa, Elfgiva, Elgiva) is an Anglo-Saxon feminine personal name, from ælf "elf" and gifu "gift". When Emma of Normandy, the later mother of Edward the Confessor, became queen of England in 1002, she was given the native Anglo-Saxon name of Ælfgifu to be used in formal and official contexts.
Aescwine
Aescwine or Escwine or Æscwine is an Anglo-Saxon name, whose modern descendant is Ashwin. It translates literally as "ash-tree friend", but can mean a number of things, including "strong/manly friend", or "friendly man."
Eadwulf
Eadwulf (sometimes Eadulf) is an Anglo-Saxon male name. Notable people with the name include:
Ælfwald
Ælfwald (also Alfwald or Aelfwald or Elfwald) may refer to:
Æthelweard
Æthelweard, also spelled Ethelweard, Aethelweard, Athelweard, etc., is an Anglo-Saxon male name. It may refer to:
Ælfwine
Ælfwine (also Aelfwine, Elfwine) is an Old English personal name. It is composed of the elements ælf "elf" and wine "friend", continuing a hypothetical Common Germanic given name *albi-winiz which is also continued in Old High German and Lombardic as Albewin, Alpwin, Albuin, Alboin. Old Norse forms of the name are Alfvin and Ǫlfun. The modern name Alwin may be a reduction of this name, or alternatively of Adalwin, the Old High German cognate of the Anglo-Saxon Æthelwine. The name of the elves is clearly of Common Germanic age. As an element in given names, it is not found in the earliest perio