From: 600cell@...
Message: 11584
Date: 2011-02-14
>The first element of Jeffery may be from Old High German <gewi> "district" (Modern German <Gau>), or perhaps <ger> "spear". Another suggestion connects it to some continental Germanic cognate of Old English <gid> "speech, verse", Old Norse <geð> "mind, inclination" (Forssner: Continental-Germanic personal names in England in Old and Middle English times, p. 102 [ http://www.archive.org/details/continentalgerma00forsuoft ]). Forssner also mentions a tendency to confuse this name with God(e)frid (pp. 102, 118-119), whose first element corresponds to Old Norse <goð> or <guð>. The second element appears in Old Norse names as <frøðr> or <freðr>, meaning "peace".
> i wonder what the translation of jeffery craft would be from english in to old norse