Bynames
don't encapsulate a person's entire persona story and life history
vA person might be
referred to by more than one byname in differing situations, but never all at the same time. In one context, a person is the son of his father, in another he is described for his
appearance or habits, when
traveling he may be referred to by his nationality or area of origin.
The
CoH has ruled that two (not three, or six, etc.) descriptive bynames in the same name is an acceptable construction
under certain circumstances.
Note that this construction was not common and is not the best historical recreation of an Old Norse
name.
The registerability
ruling appears in the 05/2002 LoAR
under Acceptances,
Outlands, in the discussion for the acceptance of the name Þórdís
gjallandi eyverska.
vRuling: … a name using two non-patronymic bynames in Old Norse
is registerable so long as
the bynames could reasonably be used to simultaneously describe the same person.