Silverthorne: ';dweller by the silver thorn';. What's it mean and is it true in Norway it means ';divine spear';?

Silverthorne: ';dweller by the silver thorn';. What's it mean and is it true in Norway it means ';divine spear';?


I have done some some pretty extensive research online but the name silverthorne is listed as in old English ';dweller by the silver thorns'; and supposedly in Norway it means ';divine spear';. Are these definitions accurate and what do they signify metaphorically?Silverthorne: ';dweller by the silver thorn';. What's it mean and is it true in Norway it means ';divine spear';?
Thorne = Anglo-Saxon or Old English or what is now ';Thorn';, so your last name has nothing to do with Norwegian. Silver = silver color, thorn = something sharp on roses, etc... Maybe it's just due to the meaning of a sharp object, which is used as the meaning of ';thorne/ thorn';. Silver = s酶lv in Modern Norwegian, thorn = torn in Modern Norwegian, so Silverthorn / Silverthorne = ';S酶lvtorn'; in Modern Norwegian but it doesn't seem to be a surname.





';dweller by the silver thorn';: Maybe the place that your ancestor's came from was at a place that was shaped like a ';silver colored thorn or sharp object';?


It's most likely that your ancestors came from England or somewhere in the UK where Anglo-Saxon used to be spoken. But definitely not in Norway. Anglo-Saxon %26amp; Norwegian are Germanic languages, meaning they might have some type of relationship via Germanic languages like Anglo-Saxon, which later on came to be called Old English [or those ';English words which has Germanic roots'; at least from a modern English speaker's point of view], Scandinavian languages, Yiddish, German, Dutch, etc...





divine = guddommelig


spear = lanse; spidde, spyd


As you can see, the modern Norwegian word for spear = ';lanse';: Does this remind you of any English or shall I say ';Anglo-Saxon'; or ';Medieval times'; English? It does look somewhat like the word ';lance'; in English does it not?