tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422935148755187067.post5710998335797058500..comments2024-03-21T12:27:14.795+00:00Comments on Norse and Viking Ramblings: Vatnsdœla SagaViqueenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05144146397028019725noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422935148755187067.post-49589029597998056552011-11-16T22:32:08.822+00:002011-11-16T22:32:08.822+00:00Dear JJ,
Nice try, but I'm afraid it is just a...Dear JJ,<br />Nice try, but I'm afraid it is just a coincidence, like everything else in this very frivolous post! Ingimundr is a very common name, in Iceland as well as Scandinavia. And the Wirral is quite a way from Cumbria. But if you're interested, have a look at Paul Cavill et al., Wirral and its Viking Heritage, 2000.<br />As ever,<br />JJViqueenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05144146397028019725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1422935148755187067.post-30983450601793067652011-11-16T20:42:45.494+00:002011-11-16T20:42:45.494+00:00Whoa hold on. Ingimundr here is a settler in Icela...Whoa hold on. Ingimundr here is a settler in Iceland, yes, not Cumbria? Only as Frederick Wainwright pointed out long ago ('Ingimund's invasion', <i>EHR</i> 63 (1948), 145–69, repr. in his <i>Scandinavian England</i>, ed. H. P. R. Finberg (Chichester 1975), 131–61) someone of that name – Ingimund, not Wainwright – is said in the <a href="http://www.ucc.ie/celt/online/G100017.html" rel="nofollow"><i>Fragmentary Annals of Ireland</i></a> (FA 429) and the <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/annalescambriae.asp" rel="nofollow"><i>Annales Cambriae</i></a> (<i>s. a.</i> 902) to have invaded Cumbria somewhere after 900. That's a similarity too far isn't it? Surely it can't be coincidence...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com