CHARLESTON, WV, November 27, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – In the new book, “Forgotten Wolves of Wilkinaland: A New Etymological Hypothesis for Wilkinson’s Name (and Variants) in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales” (published to via Archway Publishing), writer JC (Max) Wilkinson takes readers on an adventure through history, saga, myth, and linguistics about why the popular etymology of the origin of root surnames is incomplete and
During his genealogical research, the writer discovered several pieces of evidence corroborating that Wilkinson and other ‘Wilk’ root surcalls in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales are not primarily of Norman origin, as is almost universally claimed. Rather, it argues that they are surcalls derived from the early frisons, Danes and flamingos of Wilke, Wilken, Wilko and Wilkain, which have their roots in the Slavic word “wilk” meaning wolf (the Slavic analogue of the Nordic Ulf and the Germanic Wulf). Multiple ancient accounts describe the migration and assimilation of the Slavic tribe (Wend) Wilzi in the Frisian and Pomeranian regions on the Baltic coast near Denmark shortly after the cave of Rome. The Frisons and Danes who assimilated the Wilzi Slavs came here to England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, first Anglo-Saxon migration, then the Viking invasions, bringing with them those calls. Wilkinson also shows how the Slavic origin of “wilk” remains visual in the Germanic myth-folklore that immortalized King Wilkinus’ call in epics of the time such as bern’s Didrek saga (or Wilkinaland) and Wilken in the ballad. Danish Langbeen Riser.
“Forgotten Wolves of Wilkinaland” can be purchased from Amazon at: https://www. amazon. com/Forgotten-Wolves-Wilkinaland-Etymology-Hypothesis/dp/1480895903.
“Forgotten wolves of Wilkinaland”
Five x 8 inch soft canopy 136 pages ISBN 978148089five904
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JC (Max) Wilkinson is the father of 3 young men (Rosemary, Samuel and Nicholas), Catholic Christian, constitutional conservative, former infantry and U. S. army engineer (lieutenant colonel, retiree) and fighting veteran in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a lay genealogist and classical genealogist, a hobbyist in which he appreciates relying on the life circle of relative studies he began through his paternal uncle, Robert Wilkinson. Born and raised in Iowa, he graduated from the University of South Dakota of Science ( 1991) and the University of Iowa (Juris Doctor, 1996). He has lived and practiced law in Virginia and West Virginia for more than 24 years. “Forgotten Wolves of Wilkinaland” is his first published book.
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