What does Beorma mean?
Beorma variously means, in Old English, “fermented”, “head of beer”, “yeasty” or “frothy”, from which the modern English words barm and barmy are derived. The assertion that Beorma was the founder of Birmingham arose from a post-war challenge to the way Anglo-Saxon place-names had been constructed. Is Birmingham a Anglo-Saxon name? The name “Birmingham” comes…