One of the oldest Low German names on record is Hnaf, mentioned in the "Traveller's Song," written, as supposed, about the fifth century. There is a corresponding O.G. Hnabi, eighth century, the origin being, no doubt, A.S. _cnapa_, _cnafa_, son, boy. To this may be placed our names Knapp, Napp, and the patronymic Knapping. (The name Naf, in _Suffolk Surnames_, may possibly not be English.) I also take the A.S. Cnebba[54] to come in here, also Hnibba, found in Hnibbanleah (Hnibba's lea), and Nybba, found in Nybbanbeorh (Nybba's barrow), and so connect also our names Knibb, Knipe, and Knipping. Stark also brings in here the name Cniva, of a Gothic king of the third century, and Cnivida, also the name of a Goth, placed by Foerstemann to A.S. _cnif_, knife. If this be correct, our name Knife might also come in here, parallel with Knipe, and also Knyvet as probably a diminutive. Also Napkin, another diminutive = Germ. _knabchen_. PIM, PYM. The father of the Lombard king Rachis was called Pimo. There is also a Pymma about the tenth century in the _Liber Vitæ_. As to the origin of the name, I am unable to offer any suggestion. It may be, as Stark opines, a contraction of some compound name. WAMBEY, WAMPEN. Wamba was the name of a West-Gothic king in the seventh century, and there was also a deacon of the same name a few years earlier. I do not know of it as an Anglo-Saxon name, but I suppose Scott must have had some authority for introducing it as the name of the jester in _Ivanhoe_. The only derivation that can be suggested is from the Goth. _wamba_, belly, giving it the meaning of "paunchey." But it was not a nickname in the case of the Gothic king, for he bore it upon his coins, and it is difficult, as Stark observes, to suppose such a name for a king. Finding, however, on certain of his coins the variation Wanba, Stark is inclined to think that it may be a contraction of some name such as Wanbert. Was it by literary intuition that Scott pitched upon such a name for the jester, or did he know of its supposed meaning of "paunchey"? The name may be represented in our Wambey, though it is perhaps quite as likely to be from some Danish place-name in _by_, such as Wanby or Wandby. Wampen, however, if there is such a stem, might be placed to it. STRANG, STRONG, STRANK, STRANGWARD, STRANGWICK, STRINGLE, STRINGFELLOW.