#deorfrith

Deorfrith is an Anglo-Saxon masculine name composed of deor (dear) and frith (peace).

Variants:

DIARFREĐ [Stewart Lyon 2016 Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 68: plate 27, number 706].

Deorfrith [Keith Briggs 2021 An index to personal names in English place-names, 1st edition, page 99].

Prototheme:

deor = dear [Sharon Turner 1836 The History of the Anglo-Saxons from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest, 6th edition, 2: 490].

Deuterotheme:

frith = peace [Ernest Weekley 1939 Jack and Jill, 1st edition, page 29].

Usage:

Deorfrith [translation unknown, Dee-OR-free-/th/zh/G??]: Deer Sanctuary. A really pleasing find today, an Anglo-Saxon word discovered through Imaginal Futures, used in documents to refer to the deer parks created by the Normans when they conquered Britain. However, writer Tim Russell does some excellent work reclaiming and decolonizing this word in the above article, and I’ve endeavored to add a…