[36] I take Ealdermann to be, as elsewhere noted, a corruption of Ealdmann.
[37] Mr. Kemble, in default of finding Hygelac as a man's name in Anglo-Saxon times, has taken the above place-name to be from the legendary hero of that name. The fact is, however, that Hygelac occurs no fewer than four times as an early man's-name in the Liber Vitæ, so that there does not seem to be any reason whatever for looking upon it as anything else than the every-day name of an Anglo-Saxon.
[38] From a similar origin is probably Shooter's Hill, near London.
[39] There is also an A.S. Sæbriht, from sæ, sea, whence Seabright might be derived.
[40] Upon the whole I am inclined to think that Woden is here an Anglo-Saxon man's name, though the traces of it in such use are but slight. There is a Richard Wodan in the Lib. Vit. about the 15th century. And Wotan occurs once as a man's name in the Altdeutsches Namenbuch.
[41] Or Cyneburg; see p. [71].
[42] It seems clear from the names collated by German writers that ramn, remn, and ram in ancient names are contractions of raven. Compare the names of the ports, Soderhamn, Nyhamn, and Sandhamn, for, no doubt, Soderhaven, Nyhaven, and Sandhaven.
CHAPTER VI.
CORRUPTIONS AND CONTRACTIONS.