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Ælfwine (also ''Aelfwine'', ''Elfwine'') is an Old English personal name. It is composed of the elements ''ælf'' "elf" and ''wine'' "friend", continuing a hypothetical Common Germanic given name '' *albi-winiz'' which is also continued in Old High German and Lombardic as ''Albewin, Alpwin, Albuin, Alboin''. Old Norse forms of the name are Alfvin and Ǫlfun. The name is often interpreted as "elf-friend", a translation notably made use of by J.R.R. Tolkien in his legendarium, where an Ælfwine is a character who "befriended the elves", but both the ''ælf'' and the ''wine'' element are frequent elements in Germanic anthroponymy, and these elements have in historical practice be combined without a compound meaning. The modern names Alwin, Alvin may be a reduction of this name, or alternatively of ''Adalwin'', the Old High German cognate of the Anglo-Saxon Æthelwine. == Middle Ages== The name of the elves is clearly of Common Germanic age. As an element in given names, it is not found in the earliest period, but it is well attested from the 6th century. The name is first attested as that of Alboin (r. 560–572), king of the Lombards. In Anglo-Saxon England, it first occurs with the child-king Ælfwine of Deira (c. 661 - 679). The Old High German name is found in the 8th and 9th centuries in the forms ''Alfwin, Alfwini, Albuwin, Albuvin, Albewin, Albuin, Alpwin'', in the 11th century also as ''Elbewin''.〔E. Förstemann, ''Altdeutsches Namenbuch'' (1856), 53f., 61f.〕 The forms in ''alf'' are strictly speaking Low German, the forms in ''alb'' High German. The Old English '' ælf'', ''elf'' are a result of the i-mutation in North Sea Germanic. People with this name from the later Anglo-Saxon period include: *Ælfwine, son of Æthelweard (son of Alfred), who died in the Battle of Brunanburh (937) *Ælfwine of Lichfield (died 937), Bishop of Lichfield *Ælfwine of Wells (died 998), Bishop of Wells *Ælfwine, a young warrior in the poem ''The Battle of Maldon'' *Ælfwine of Elmham (died 1023), bishop of Elmham and Dunwich *Ælfwine of Winchester (died 1047), Bishop of Winchester *Aelfwine, Abbot of New Minster (died 1057), scribe or author of ''Aelfwine's Prayerbook'' (Cotton Titus D.xxvi) *Ælfwine Haroldsson (11th century), son of Harald Harefoot, King of England People with the Old High German name: *Albuin, margrave of Carinthia (10th century) *Albuin, son of the above, bishop of Brixen (d. 1006) The earliest evidence of the name in Scandinavia dates to the 11th century. The Old Norse form of the name may thus be a loan from Low German or Anglo-Saxon. The name is attested on an 11th-century runestone in the Younger Futhark spelling ''alfuin'', and possibly on a second one, as ''aulfun''.〔(DR384, Vester Marie 2 ); (DR287, Bjäresjö 1 )〕 An Old Swedish spelling of the name was ''Alwin''.〔Lena Peterson, (Nordiskt runnamnslexikon ) (2001).〕 In the Norman period, both Ælfwine and Æthelwine were shortened to ''Alwin''. This subsequently became a surname. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ælfwine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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