Nicholas Roerich: Guests from Overseas (1899), a painting depicting Varangians, Scandinavians who ruled Kievan Rus' and traded with the Byzantine Empire, as well as both Anglo-Saxons and Scandinavians who served as bodyguards to the Byzantine emperor. Varangian derives from Varangus, Medieval Latin for Old English Wæring or Old Norse Væringi, from which the various forms of the surname Waering are also derived.
Origin
Meaning
a Varangian, a confederate or, literally, 'sworn companion'
Region of origin
Denmark, England, Germany, Norway, Sweden
Other names
Variant form(s)
Væring, Väring, Wæring, Wäring
Waering is a Germanic surname. Although Grant Allen[1] and Isaac Taylor[2] described Wæring as an Anglo-Saxon clan name equivalent to the Norse Væringjar (autonym of the Varangians), the eminent British philologist Walter William Skeat suggested that it might be a patronymic.[3]
^Allen, Grant (1910). Anglo-Saxon Britain. The Library of Congress. New York, E. S. Gorham. p. 194.
^Taylor, Isaac (1898). Names and Their Histories: A Handbook of Historical Geography and Topographical Nomenclature (entry for "Warwick"). Rivingtons. p. 291.
^"A List of Anglo-Saxon Names Still in Use as Surnames". Transactions of the Philological Society. 26 (1): 82. 1907. doi:10.1111/j.1467-968X.1907.tb00509.x. ISSN 1467-968X.
Waering is a Germanic surname. Although Grant Allen and Isaac Taylor described Wæring as an Anglo-Saxon clan name equivalent to the Norse Væringjar (autonym...
specimens. In 1961, 102 years after its description, Erik N. Kjellesvig-Waering noted that only one of these specimens (Number 89587 of the Geological...
History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch , version 20.5 Kjellesvig-Waering, Erik N. (1972). "Brontoscorpio anglicus: a gigantic Lower Paleozoic scorpion...
Pterygotus, P. howelli, was named by American palaeontologist Erik Kjellesvig-Waering and Størmer in 1952 based on a fossil telson and tergite (the dorsal part...
released in 2001 when Angylus was 22 years old. It was followed up by Coma Waering in 2003, which was recorded in 2002 and self-released until being re-issued...
Megalograptus inferred by Caster and Kjellesvig-Waering are similar to those inferred by Kjellesvig-Waering of Carcinosoma newlini, another eurypterid also...
Tobago. The first synopsis of the scorpion fauna came from E. N. Kjellesvig-Waering in 1966 with a total of 8 species. Work by Oscar Franke and Julius Boos...
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Warin, meaning 'guard,' via Norman French Guarin, or from the Anglo-Saxon Wæring, meaning 'confederate' or, more literally, 'oath companion.' Both hypotheses...
Kjellesvig-Waering described the new species Pterygotus ventricosus, later considered the type species of Ciurcopterus. Kjellesvig-Waering raised the...
place on the River Mersey. A new settlement was established by the Saxon Wærings. By the Middle Ages, Warrington had emerged as a market town at the lowest...
Kjellesvig-Waering in a 1955 publication, stating that using P. buffaloensis over P. cummingsi was "subjective" and in 1961, Kjellesvig-Waering recognised...
eurypterid studies. In 1961, American paleontologist Erik N. Kjellesvig-Waering classified Eurypterus punctatus (originally described as Pterygotus punctatus...
are unknown. Melbournopterus Caster & Kjellesvig-Waering, 1953 M. crossotus, Caster & Kjellesvig-Waering, 1953, Upper Silurian, Australia Jason A. Dunlop;...
Ringerike, Norway. Kjellesvig-Waering, Erik N. (1961) "Eurypterids of the Devonian Holland Quarry Shale of Ohio" Kjellesvig-Waering, Erik N.; Leutze, Willard...
Echinognathus and Megalograptus. The family was amended by Erik N. Kjellesvig-Waering in Størmer's 1955 Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, with the name...
Kjellesvig-Waering in 1964 as part of a greater re-examination of the various species assigned to the family Pterygotidae. Kjellesvig-Waering retained P...
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"The Paleobiology Database". "Fossilworks: Gigantoscorpio". Kjellesvig-Waering, Erik N. (1972). "Brontoscorpio anglicus: A Gigantic Lower Paleozoic Scorpion...
an extinct family of scorpions. Taxonomy of scorpions E. N. Kjellesvig-Waering. 1986. A restudy of the fossil Scorpionida of the world. Palaeontographica...
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