Andrew M. Drozd (University of Alabama). Vladimir: what's in a name? // Germano-Slavica, Canada, Annual 2000 (vol. XII (2000-2001), pp. 5-28)
... are all Slavic dithematic names beginning with vlad-/volod- also borrowings from Scandinavian? Is vlad- as it is found throughout the Slavic world also a Scandinavian borrowing? Not only does Petrov's speculation give rise to far more questions than it answers, it is based on faulty evidence. In order to further his case that Slavic names never end with -vlad/-volod, Petrov simply declares two other Old Russian names (Iavolod, Rogvolod) ending in -volod also to be Scandinavian. (87) Likewise, Petrov provides no discussion of other Slavic dithematic names which end in -vlad/-volod. However, Slavic names with this ending are by no means uncommon. Indeed, dithematic names ending in -vlad/-volod were numerous enough for Safarik to include -vlad among the list of endings of old Slavic names in his discussion: Dobrovlad, Duchovlad, Dusevlad, Horovlad, Imivlad, Mnohovlad, Povlad, Prevlad, Samovlad. (88) Other names include Bohovlad, (89) Belovolod, Bogdavlad, Krestovolod, Liutovlad, Teshivlad, Usevlad, (90) Mirovlad, Radovlad, (91) Sinevolod (92) and Swatowlad. (93) ...



