#hunlaf

Hunlaf is an Anglo-Saxon masculine name composed of Hun (Hun) and laf (legacy), cognate with Danish Hunlef.

Variants:

hunlâf [Jacob Grimm 1826 Deutsche grammatik, 2nd edition, 2: 462].

Hunlaf [John Kemble 1840 Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici 2: 278].

Húnláf [Oswin Kinsey 2016 English Compound Names, 2nd edition, page 71].

Hūnlāf [Keith Briggs 2021 An index to personal names in English place-names, 1st edition, page 173].

Prototheme:

Hun = One of an Asiatic race of warlike nomads, who invaded Europe c ᴀ.ᴅ. 375, and in the middle of the 5th c., under their famous king Attila (styled Flagellum Dei, the scourge of God), overran and ravaged a great part of this continent [Sir James Murray 1901 A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 1st edition, 5: 455].

Deuterotheme:

laf = a relic, legacy [Benjamin Thorpe 1845 A History of England under the Saxon Kings 1: 281].

Usage:

There were two bits of good news. One: Hunter didn’t have a roommate, because it was summer and that apparently meant that the dorms were pretty empty and that the rules and regulations that would govern the fall semester were up in the air. Two: Hunter didn’t have a lot of stuff. This would make moving relatively simple and he could get it done within the morning and then have the rest of the day to scout out Swynlake.

Not that it would even take that long to do. Swynlake was… quaint. Quiet. Boring compared to the Boiling Isles, but then again, most places were. 

He’d just started to unzip his one suitcase with his clothes, when there was a knock at the door. 

“Hello,” said Hunter, upon opening it and spotting who he assumed was a fellow student. “Are you a representative of the university?”