Old English lida and the sailors of the North Sea by Patrizia Lendinara

“… The essay examines the words for ‘sailor’ in the Germanic languages, with particular regard to those going under the sobriquet of North Sea Germanic languages. The research begins with the lida of Maxims I and his safe return home. …”
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La question du messianismedans l’islam primitif by Fred M. Donner

“…As evidence, Crone and Cook relied on the testimony of some more or less contemporary Jewish and Christian sources along with the well-known fact that, in Muslim tradition, 'Umar carries the sobriquet, al-fârûq, etymologically related to the Syriac word for « savior ».The present article undertakes a re-examination of the sources adduced by Crone and Cook and considers relevant passages in the Quran, to show that the evidence for an aboriginal messianic orientation among the early believers is lacking. …”
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Mṣalyanuṯā 6. Notes on the dossier of “Messalian heresy”: the riddle of Lampetius by Alexey Muravyev

“…Thus it has become a sobriquet of a luxurious heretic. Historical inconsistencies in the Middle-Age anti-heretic literature ceased to confuse readers, because the whole history of “Messalianism” turned into a myth. …”
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“The Giant of Africa” and “Africa’s Success Story”: a Comparative Study of Democracy in Nigeria and Botswana by OJO Emmanuel Oladipo, DUYILE William Abiodun

“…Nigeria and Botswana are famous for their sobriquets – while the former is often regarded as the ‘giant of Africa’; the latter is renowned as ‘Africa’s success story’, ‘African miracle’ and ‘Africa’s bastion of democracy’. …”
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