This one-name study starts from an unknown patriarch called Sceaft. Since this word designates a shaft, a javelinr or a spear in ancient Saxon, the author refers to him as Spearhead. He may have been a Viking whose descendants found their way to Normandy in France. The author believes that descendants of this legendary Spearhead settled at the site of present-day Skeffington in Leicestershire, in the wake of the Norman invasion. Maybe the Conqueror himself was a descendant of Spearhead. This speculation leads the author to a far-fetched possibility: the idea that, following a path from Leicestershire down to Dorset, he might well be a Y-chromosome genetic descendant of both Spearhead and the Conqueror.
Autorius: | William John Skyvington |
Leidėjas: | Gamone Press |
Išleidimo metai: | 2019 |
Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 130 |
ISBN-10: | 2919427032 |
ISBN-13: | 9782919427031 |
Formatas: | Knyga kietu viršeliu |
Kalba: | Anglų |
Žanras: | Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours |
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