Re: [tied] Ragnvalðr or Rögnvalðr?

<ragn-> and <rögn->/<rægin-, regin-> are variants of the same morpheme: a different dialectal version of the same name (Runic rahnualtr, raknualt), developed into Reginald. The normal form in Old Swedish would have been Ragnvaldr. Note, however, that what's written <ö> (or <o,>) in Old Norse dialects is not a front rounded vowel but an open rounded back vowel ([O]), so in fact either would work in your case.

Piotr

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Subject: [tied] Ragnvalðr or Rögnvalðr?

This Scandinavian name is rendered as _rahnualtr_ (eg., in Ed Runestone, http://w1.859.telia.com/~u85906673/asar/ed.html) in some runic inscriptions, which looks as pointing to _Ragnvalðr_. On the other hand, I have second-hand information that the name is presented as Old Icelandic _Rögnvalðr_ in critical editions of some sagas. Where is the truth? Or I'm just missing something? The question, among other things, is important to me, because Old Russian _Rog(U)volodU_ (a name of a prince of Polotsk) is easily explainable as a borrowing from _Ragnvalðr_, but not-so-easily from Rögnvalðr. With hope, Sergei

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