Thorstein Codbiter

[bunn]

Is a very fine name, but personally I think the name Thorolf Mostbeard may be the finest of all Viking names.  I hope he really did have Mostbeard, and it wasn't one of those Little John style names, making fun of his weedy and inadequate chinfungus. 

Comments

[wellinghall]

Reading the sagas?

[bunn]

'Thorunn the Horned' is such an unusual name for a girl. Why do these lovely old names not get used any more!! :-D

[wellinghall]

David Gower's wife is called Thorun (although not, I think, Thorun(n) the Horned).

[huinare]

*googles*

So I'm to understand these two gentlemen are distantly related and also that Codbiter took part in something sometime referred to as the Thing-fight.

*basks in enlightenment*

[bunn]

THING-FIGHT!!!

Even the words sound like they are about to have an argument and hit each other with big axes.

[island_of_reil]

Sounds like a cockslap duel to me... :D

[ningloreth]

I do like Codbiter!

I gave my Beornings real Viking names -- one of them is called Bergthórr beytill - Bergthórr horse-penis

:-)

[kargicq]

I'm voting for Codbiter over Mostbeard, sorry. Even though Mostbeard rocks. -N

[island_of_reil]

Is there a Thorstein Neckbeard, by any chance?