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Brūcend:Hogweard How will be word "Valiant" or "Brave" in old English? Jaqeli (talk) 00:32, 2 Þrimilcemōnaþ 2015 (UTC)

Well, usually they would have said Englisc! Seriously though, there are many words which could be used, this being a common subject of poetry.

Some words are found here and here. I rather like:

• dǣdrōf ('deed-famed') or
• gūþhwæt ('battle-brave'), or
• cynebeald ('kingly-bold') or
• wlanc.

If used as a title though the king is "the Valiant" so it has to take an inflexion, as in se Gūðhwata, se Dǣdrōfa, if it is in the nominative (in the accusative add an "n" to the adjective and se becomes 'þone). Hogweard (talk) 07:33, 2 Þrimilcemōnaþ 2015 (UTC)

Brūcend:Hogweard Thanks. How will "Pharnavazid dynasty" be in Old English? Something like Pharnavaz Hus? Jaqeli (talk) 12:01, 2 Þrimilcemōnaþ 2015 (UTC)

That would work: hūs is used in this way. Another word for 'dynasty' or 'royal family' is cynecynn. However the most famous way to describe a royal family is the suffix -ingas (plural).

In a name, Ælfreding means "Son of Alfred". It is used in a wider sense for a dynasty of common descent, so the Kings of Wessex were the Cerdicingas (descendants of Cerdic), those of Mercia claimed descent from Wuffa and so were the Wuffingas, Kent has Esingas, Northumbria Idingas and East Anglia the Icelingas (sons of Icel) whose name appears all over those shire. You might then have the 'Pharnavazingas'.

The -ingas formation is used for non-royal clans too, which is why so many British town and village names end 'ing' or 'ingham', which would once have been -ingas and -ingaham. Hogweard (talk) 21:35, 2 Þrimilcemōnaþ 2015 (UTC)