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Pages in category "Norwegian-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 896 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Much of the north of 9th century England was occupied by Norse invaders, who left behind descendants with Norse surnames. Norse invaders ruled much of northern England, in the 9th and 10th centuries, and left English surnames of Norse origin in the area now called the Danelaw. [1] [2]
Unlike modern surnames (family names), they were specific to a person and were not transferred to a person's children. Before 1500, hereditary surnames (family names) were almost unheard except among a few, select elite families. For a long time after that, they were inconsistently used and only found in the upper strata (often urban) of society.
Russell, also Rosel, Rousel, Roussel, Russel or Rossell.The origin of the name has historically been subject to disagreement, with two distinct origins proposed. Early genealogists traced the Russel/Russell family of Kingston Russel from Anglo-Norman landholders bearing the toponymic surname 'de Rosel' or 'du Rozel', deriving from Rosel, Calvados, Normandy (not, as has also been claimed, Le ...
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Viking surnames are often toponymic (denoting the local landscape) and surnames of Old Norse origin are often ornamental (combining two descriptions); a common example is Nordström, meaning 'a person who lives north of the stream' or 'a person who lives by the stream in the north'.
Tot or -tot, meaning "property", is the most common suffix of Old Norse origin, with more than 300 locations ending with -tot in Normandy. It is derived from the Old Norse topt (similar to the Old English toft, and Old Danish -toft[e]), meaning "site of a house". In later usages of the 11th century, it can also be found alone as in, le Tot.
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