--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> There were about a dozen other names with <ragn-> (Ragnhildr,
Ræginmundr [Raymond], Ragnarr, etc.). In by far most of them the
variant <ragn-> is used.
>
A second thought.
If /o,/ in western Norse _Ro,gnvaldr_ is caused by /v/([w])-provoked
u-umlaut rather than some kind of analogical levelling, the names you
mentioned can't be accepted as a supporting evidence for the fact
that the umlaut failed in eastern Norse in that particular lexeme --
there are no /v/ or /u/ in the names.
Sergei