Old English sǣte names survive in documentary sources and place-names, and have been used in historical discourse as evidence for early and middle Anglo-Saxon socio-political organization. Earlier analyses, founded on incomplete datasets, have attempted to interpret the material in isolation from its onomastic context; this has led to confusion about the significance of such names. Here the analysis of sǣte names is based on a more complete corpus, leading to a radically new interpretation of their distribution, chronology and historical context, with significant implications for our understanding of the evolution of Anglo-Saxon administrative geography and the wider perception of so-called ‘folk’ names.

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古英语名称和“民俗”名称的历史意义

古老的英语名称在文献来源和地名中都存在，并已在历史论述中用作早期和中期盎格鲁-撒克逊社会政治组织的证据。较早的分析建立在不完整的数据集的基础上，试图将材料与异常环境分开来解释。这导致人们对此类名称的含义感到困惑。在这里，对名字的分析是基于一个更完整的语料库，从而导致对它们的分布，年代和历史背景进行了全新的解释，这对我们对盎格鲁-撒克逊行政地理的演变以及对此的广泛理解具有重要意义。所谓的“民间”名称。