Heill Scott.

In answer to your question, yes, I have a citable source for any name I
give, except when giving serious reconstructions, almost always in the
case of the many lost women's names. When giving these, I will give the
masculine equivalents, if there are any, or related names, and explain
why a given name would exist. Usually, the name category in which I
place a name will also stengthen my argument for it, if unattested.
Again, these would almost always be women's names. I mentioned a list
of my sources in my first post on this topic, and can give a sources,
or often several, for any name I give. In truth, I have worked so long
on ON personal names now that I usually know the sources for a name by
memory. So just ask. By the way, the rundatabas, the pan-nordic
runedatabase available free online, is an excellent direct source.
There one can simply throw in alternate runic spellings for names and
find them. I have read, and used, the entire source, as well as any
other book, and by any author, that cites the same sources, in order to
double-check and see how other specialists are rendering given names.
One of the most complete of the earlier book is by Eivind Vågslid, and
in Norwegian, but he gives mythological names, dwarf-names, god-names
and so forth without distinguishing them from men's names, probably in
the belief that no such distinction existed. It did. Therefore, I am in
my work on this topic wholey focused on the names of men, women, human
persons - that is, on their personal and given names. Other sources I
have used are collections of mideaval letters and other documents, many
cited in other books, and which are available in Scandinavian libraries
in a series of binds or volumes, a set for each modern country. Another
source has been Scandinavians named in foreign sources. Also, kings
sagas, sagas of Icelanders, sagas of olden times, Landnamabok, and a
volume called Nafnaskra, which followed an earlier edition of Icelandic
sagas in a slightly modernized Icelandic. I have a very long and
detailed list of sources with full credits in yet unpublished book on
ON names. I have the material in 3 sections therein (see my first post
here on the topic). Thank you for your interest.

-Konrad

> This is fascinating (medieval anthroponymy is my special field of

interest).

> Do you have a citable source for your information?
>
> Scott Catledge, PhD/STD
>
> Professor Emeritus (ret.)
>
> history & languages