Academy of Saint Gabriel Report 017

Academy of Saint Gabriel Report 017

This report is available at http://www.s-gabriel.org/017

This is one of the Academy's earliest reports. We are not confident that these early reports are accurate. Please use it with caution.

Greetings,

We've spent some time doing research on your name. This is what we've found out.

"Sommerska" is a modern Swedish word. In medieval Swedish, we found many examples of surnames which would today mean "Sommerska." The names are followed by the dates we have recorded for them; a date followed by a star indicates that we have multiple references, and have listed the earliest. In these examples, "o:" represents a Swedish "dotted o." and "ó" a Danish "slashed o".

Although all of these are a bit later than your period, we are confident that these names are reasonable even for someone from the 14th century.

We found all of these names in the following sources:

(1) Soderwall, KF: 'Ordbok ofver Svenska Medeltidsspraket' Lund 1884-1918, sup.

Lund 1925-1973, sup. p. 866

(2) Modeer, Ivar: 'Svenska Personnamn', Lund 1989, p. 105

Lindorm Eriksson, Hartmann Rogge, Solveig Throndarsdottir, Ivanor of Sighty Crag, Tangwystl verch Morgant Glasvryn, Arval d'Espas Nord, Alison MacDermot, Gianetta Andreini de Vicenza, and Jaelle of Armida all assisted in researching your name.

If you'd like any other assistance, please let us know.

In service,

Alan Fairfax
Academy of St. Gabriel