Writing Viking Fiction?
How many more Ragnars and Ulfriks do readers need?
Again, thanks to Christie Ward at The Viking Answer Lady for her English translation.
You get to what's below from her bibliography
Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (rough English translation)
[A huge zipped PDF. You will need a utility to unzip the file -- for example, the shareware tool WinZip -- and you will need a copy of thefree Adobe Acrobat Reader.]
Viking names mean something. And since my main character's name - Jarnulf - isn't explained in Viking Hunter, Jarn means Iron and Ulf means Wolf.
To Vikings steel was (improved) iron, the stuff weapons were made of. You can extrapolate from there.
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