Sunnah (tribal chief)

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Sunna was an Anglo-Saxon tribal prince whose subjects lived in the eastern part of what is now Berkshire in southern England . A number of English place names have their origin with him. These locations include: Sonning (originally Sunning ), Sonning Eye , Sunbury , Sunningdale , Sunninghill, and Sunningwell . Many of these places are near the Thames .

According to historian Steven Bassett, Sunbury may have been named after Sunna as a province called Sunninges , located west of Chertsey in what is now Berkshire in the mid-670s . A Wessex historian has noted that Sunnah of Sonning and related names clearly belong to a local ruler of no small importance. The name Sunna as a personal name is considered very rare.

However, one theory put forward in 1937 suggests that sunna probably means wet marshland.

literature

  • David Nash Ford: History of Sonning (Berkshire). In: Britannia. ( britannia.com )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ RBH: History of Sonning, Berkshire. berkshirehistory.com, accessed December 11, 2015 .
  2. ^ Margaret Gelling: The Place-Names of Berkshire. Volume 51. University Press, Cambridge 1973, p. 921.
  3. ↑ Steven Bassett: The Origins of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Leicester University Press, London / New York 1989, ISBN 0-7185-1317-7 , p. 114.
  4. ^ Gordon J. Copley: The Conquest of Wessex in the sixth century. Phoenix House, London 1954, OCLC 4747478 , p. 161.
  5. ^ Ernst Alfred Philippson: Germanic paganism among the Anglo-Saxons. B. Tauchnitz, Leipzig 1929, OCLC 2762724 , p. 104 ("As a male personal name, Sunna is rare according to Searles Onomasticon").
  6. ^ Robert Eugen Zachrisson: Studia neophilologica. Volume 9-11. From. Lundequistska bokhandeln, Uppsala 1937, OCLC 41207858 , p. 78.
personal data
SURNAME Sunnah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sunning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Anglo-Saxon tribal prince
DATE OF BIRTH between 5th century and 10th century
DATE OF DEATH between 5th century and 10th century