I have a YA novel about Vikings that I'm entering final draft stages on.  A reader from Norway enjoyed the novel, and offered me some very helpful comments -- especially about the landscape.  But one thing she pointed out may be innaccurate, because she isn't really a historian:  names.  She didn't think the names of my Norwegian characters were very Norwegian sounding.  For example, she thought the character I'd named "Hrolf" would be named "Rolf", instead.  And the name "Gylfi" just wasn't at all Norwegian.  (Obviously, I took the latter from the Prose Edda.)  Is there a good reference available (hopefully online) for Old Norwegian names, or was there no distinction between names in ancient Iceland and ancient Norway, around 1,000 C.E.?

 

thanks,

 

Jamie