Talk:Wehha of East Anglia

O'Loughlin
O'Loughlin appears to try to connect Wehha to the Lombards who lived in Italy at the time and makes the claim that the name Weohstan had no connection to Scandinvia:


 * Lindqvist's conjecture that Wehha is a hypocoristic form of the name Weohstan is linguistically not possible, according to O'Loughlin, as Weohstan is a later West Saxon name.
 * O'Loughlin notes that Wehha and his father Wilhelm can be linked with a person named Wehilo and his father Weho, who are listed in a genealogy found a manuscript of the laws of Rothari, a 7th-century king of the Lombards.

However, Weohstan is indeed considered to be the Anglo-Saxon rendering of a Norse name. See references in Weohstan. Should O'Loughlin's claim be presented so uncritically as it is in this article?--Berig (talk) 12:35, 12 April 2018 (UTC)