Schröder (1918) read the text as "Walburg, the Semnonic sibyl" and considered Semnonic to be a cultic name rather than an ethnonym, while Helm (1918) read her name as Waluburg and suggested that it was a title rather than a proper name. Reichert (1987) lists her name without elaboration as Baluburg in his , but as Waluburg in his article Frau in Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (1995). Simek writes her name as Waluborg and adds that Senoni is clearly the tribal name Semnoni but misspelled.
