Germanic given names are traditionally dithematic ; that is, they are formed from two elements, by joining a prefix and a suffix . For example, King Æþelred 's name was derived from æþele , meaning "noble", and ræd , meaning "counsel".
14-1184: Wieland is a Germanic name , from wela , "battle", and nand , "brave". The English form is Wayland . Weyland the Smith , a smith in Germanic mythology Given name [ edit ] Wieland Wagner (1917–1966), grandson of Richard Wagner Surname [ edit ] Alon Wieland (1935–2022), American businessman and politician Christoph Martin Wieland (1733–1813), German poet Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877–1957), Nobel Prize–winning German chemist Jan Müller-Wieland (born 1966), German composer Joe Wieland (born 1990), American baseball player Johann Wieland (born 1972), Austrian ski mountaineer Liza Wieland (born 1960), American novelist Melchior Wieland (c. 1520–1589), Prussian herbalist Paul Wieland (born 1962), American politician Rainer Wieland (born 1957), German politician Wolfgang Wieland (1948–2023), German lawyer and politician Other [ edit ] Wieland (novel) ,
28-418: A 1798 novel by Charles Brockden Brown See also [ edit ] Wayland (disambiguation) Weyland (disambiguation) Weiland (disambiguation) Wyland (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Wieland . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
42-508: A range of bynames: additional names that accompany a 'forename'. These can be toponymic (locational), occupational, genealogical, or 'nicknames'. Germanic Heroic Age The Germanic (or " German ") Heroic Age , so called in analogy to the Heroic Age of Greek mythology , is the period of early historic or quasi-historic events reflected in Germanic heroic poetry, often expressed in alliterative verse . The period corresponds to
56-535: A remnant of their second element, but reduced so that it cannot be identified unambiguously any longer; Curt/Kurt may abbreviate either Conrad or Cunibert. Harry may abbreviate either Harold or Henry. Other monothematic names may have originated as bynames rather than hypocorisms of old dithematic names; examples may include Old English Æsc "ash tree", Carl "free man" ( Charles ), Hengest "stallion", Raban "raven" ( Rabanus Maurus ), Hagano/ Hagen "enclosure", Earnest "vigorous, resolute". Germanic names often feature
70-484: A single element. These are sometimes explained as hypocorisms , short forms of originally dithematic names, but in many cases the etymology of the supposed original name cannot be recovered. The oldest known Germanic names date to the Roman Empire period, such as those of Arminius and his wife Thusnelda in the 1st century CE, and in greater frequency, especially Gothic names , in the late Roman Empire, in
84-556: Is not always clear. Of the large number of medieval Germanic names, a comparatively small set remains in common use today. For almost a thousand years, the most frequent name of Germanic origin in the English-speaking world has traditionally been William (from the Old High German Willahelm ), followed by Robert , Richard and Henry . Many native English (Anglo-Saxon) names fell into disuse in
98-506: The Völsung and Tyrfing cycles, include: A number of tribal kings of the 5th to 6th centuries featured in heroic poetry are likely historical, but only rarely can this be established from independent historiographic traditions, as in the case of Hygelac (died c. 521 ), king of the Geats , who appears both in the heroic poem Beowulf and in historiographic sources such as
112-686: The Burgundians , and the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain ). The Germanic peoples at the time lived mostly in tribal societies . William Paton Ker in Epic and Romance (1897) takes the "heroic age" as predating the "age of chivalry " with its new literary genre of Romance . Ker would thus extend the Germanic heroic age to the point of Christianization , to the inclusion of the Scandinavian Viking Age and culminating in
126-722: The Germanic Wars in terms of historiography, and to the Germanic Iron Age in terms of archaeology, spanning the early centuries of the 1st millennium, in particular the 4th and 5th centuries, the period of the final collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the establishment of stable " barbarian kingdoms " larger than at the tribal level (the kingdoms of the Visigoths and Ostrogoths , the Franks and
140-646: The Icelandic family sagas of the 13th century. Indeed, Christianization resulted in the loss of the tradition of heroic poetry, although there are examples of heroic poems that postdate Christianization by several centuries, such as The Battle of Maldon , composed three centuries after the Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons , or the Hildebrandslied , written at Fulda 300 years after
154-599: The 4th to 5th centuries (the Germanic Heroic Age ). A great variety of names are attested from the medieval period , falling into the rough categories of Scandinavian ( Old Norse ), Anglo-Saxon ( Old English ), continental ( Frankish , Old High German and Low German ), and East Germanic (see Gothic names ) forms. By the High Middle Ages , many of these names had undergone numerous sound changes and/or were abbreviated, so that their derivation
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#1732766206440168-595: The Christianization of the Franks . The Prose Edda itself originated as a handbook for skaldic poets, compiled by Snorri Sturluson more than 200 years after the Christianisation of Iceland , because poetic tradition at that time was threatened by extinction. Germanic mythology combines purely mythological material with historical events of the heroic-age period. Identifiable historical characters appearing in Germanic heroic poetry, notably in
182-492: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wieland&oldid=1189110305 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Germanic name However, there are also names dating from an early time which seem to be monothematic, consisting only of
196-1007: The later Middle Ages, but experienced a revival in the Victorian era ; some of these are Edward , Edwin , Edmund , Edgar , Alfred , Oswald and Harold for males; the female names Mildred and Gertrude also continue to be used in present day, Audrey continues the Anglo-Norman (French) form of the Anglo-Saxon Æðelþryð , while the name Godiva is a Latin form of Godgifu . Some names, like Howard and Ronald , are thought to originate from multiple Germanic languages, including Anglo-Saxon. OH þrúðr, OE þrȳð, drut, trud, thrud, thryth Some medieval Germanic names are attested in simplex form; these names may have originated as hypocorisms of full dithematic names, but in some cases they entered common usage and were no longer perceived as such. Some hypocorisms retain
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