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Pronunciation guide:
I’ve tried to use mainly Anglicised versions of Old English but I continue to use Æ where appropriate because it made the whole deal with names make so much more sense for me. Æ is pronounced ‘Ah’ as in ash or cat; or the start of Alfred (which was in old English Ælfred, ‘elf-counselled’). So Ethelred the Unready and Athelstan both have the same starting sound, but people get very confused when both anglicisations are used in the same book. This is the hill I will die on!! Some of the rules are a bit more complicated so I’ll just be writing out what I THINK are the closest pronunciations! Old English changes its pronunciation across time and space but these are how I’ve been pronouncing things:
Leofwynn -> Lay-off (sorta mushed together to sound more like leuff) – win
Kyre -> Ki-rie (same way as Kyrie Eleison)
Ceolred > Chol (churl without the r) – red
Cyneburg -> Kü-neh-burg
(‘Y’ can be pronounced both like e and ü and seems to have shifted more to be like ‘e’ by 1066, so Cyne (OE ‘King) sounds like Kin-eh but at this period I think the ‘ü’ sound was more prevalent.)
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