Sökning: "place names"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 53 avhandlingar innehållade orden place names.
6. Ortnamnsanpassning som process : En undersökning av vendiska ortnamn och ortnamnsvarianter i Knýtlinga saga
Sammanfattning : The aim of the thesis is to theoretically and empirically describe and explain the phenomenon of place-name adaptation which does not necessarily end with the borrowing or replication of place-names but can continue further. 48 Wendish place-names in Knýtlinga saga, including their attestations and variants in a selection of the saga’s text carriers and corresponding text witnesses, constitute the primary material for the investigation. LÄS MER
7. Studier över sörmländska sjönamn : Etymologi, namnbildning och formutveckling
Sammanfattning : The study of Swedish lake names may involve difficulties of many different kinds. The varying themes of the individual studies making up this thesis reflect the wide span of hydronymic research. Lake names can be structured morphologically, semantically, chronologically and geographically. LÄS MER
8. Nämnda ting men glömda : Ortnamn, landskap och rättsutövning
Sammanfattning : The dissertation describes the names related to justice and places in the landscape where justice was administered, applying an interdisciplinary perspective with place names as the chief source material.One aim is to collect and describe place names in Skåne designating or indirectly associated with meeting places and districts of the court, and to study the named places. LÄS MER
9. Gudarnas platser : Förkristna sakrala ortnamn i Mälarlandskapen
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is the employment of a material-based investigation to create a platform for further research into sacral place-names in Scandinavia. The objective has been to delimit and evaluate a corpus of potential sacral place-names within an area selected for study, i.e. LÄS MER
10. Finska och icke-finska tillnamn i Nedertorneås kyrkböcker på 1800-talet
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between Finnish and non-Finnish by-names in the church registers of Nedertorneå in the nineteenth century. The investigation shows that the by-names are rather heterogeneous in character and a portion of them consists of elements from different languages. LÄS MER