From: tgpedersen@...
Message: 8130
Date: 2001-07-27
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> The following comments, unless otherwise indicated are from Bent
> Jørgensen: Stednavneordbog, Gyldendal.
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> > Homeric towns |Modern place names
> > of Boeotia |in northern Denmark
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> > Aulis | Aalborg
> Alabu coin 1035-42
> Alaburg *1075
> Aleburgh *1231
> 1st element: Jutlandese ål "furrow, ditch" presumably referring to
> the old branching course of the Østerå into the Limfjord. The
> traditional explanation, according to which ål (n.) should refer to
> the channel in the Limfjord fits badly with the fact that the first
> element is in the gen. pl.
> [TP: There were two "å"'s in Ålborg: Østerå and Vesterå]
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> > Mycalessus | Mygind and Mylund in eastern Jutland
> Mygind Djursland
> Mygynd 1396
> 1st element seems to be the stem in møg, Proto-Nordic *muki "muck,
> dung"
> 2nd element -und.
> ? "the mucky, dungy place"
> Mylund is in NW Jutland
> [TP: Weird case. I once pointed out the frequent occurence of -s, -
> ind, -und in pre-Germanic Danish place names, similar to Pre-Greek
> placenames in Greece in -ssos,-inthos, -unthos. Here Greek -ssos
> seems to correspond to Danish -und.
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> > Medeon | Madum
> Madum Ringkøbing, W Jutland
> Matæ mark 1292
> Matum *1325
> Må:m locally
> Pl. of old Da. *mat, most likely in sense known from other Nordic
> languages "border, border marker", derived from the root of a word
> that means "to measure". In the oldest form the name is in gen. pl.
> while all younger forms are in dat. pl.
> "(on, at) the border markers"
> Madum is situated at the border between Ulfborg and Hing herred.
> [TP: that "met" measure is an old one, found also in AfroAsiatic
> Austronesian]Pliny the Elder says Pytheas on his journey north from Massilia found