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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
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> --- On Sun, 11/2/08, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> > From: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> > Subject: [tied] Re: Scandinavia and the Germanic tribes such as
Goths, Vandals, Angli and Saxones.
> > To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Sunday, November 2, 2008, 4:12 PM
> > > How 'bout the rivers of Scandinavia and Denmark (assuming it's
> > > big enough for rivers)?
> >
> > There's the Gudenå, but that's about it.
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guden%C3%A5
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randers
> > One of my ancestors worked as a boatman on it.
> > http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pramfarten_p%C3%A5_Guden%C3%A5en
> > FWIW
> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/7451
> >
>
> A pramfartener
Pram-fart-en = "barge-running-the". The Danish word is 'pramdrager'.
There was that word again.
> in the family, now that's someone most of us would never admit to.
> So what is the ety. for the good ol' Guden?
http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guden%C3%A5
'Den øverste del af Gudenåen har tidligere haft flere forskellige
navne. Det allerøverste, bækagtige forløb har heddet Hammermølleå,
lidt længere nede hed åen Stovgårdså, Træden Å, Bredvadå og Vorvadså.
Fra og med udløbet fra Mossø hed den Sønderå eller blot Den Store Å.
Det var først på strækningen neden for Silkeborg, at åløbet bar navnet
Gudenå, som betyder, "den til guderne indviede". I Snorres
Heimskringla bruges betegnelsen Godnarfjördr om Randers Fjord, og i Øm
Klosters krønike fra begyndelsen af 1200 tallet hedder den Guthnesse.[2].'
"The upper part of the Guden Å has earlier had several different
names. The uppermost, brooklike run has been called Hammermølle Å, a
little further down the stream was called Stovgårds Å, Træden Å,
Bredvad Å og Vorvads Å. From the exit from the Mos Sø it was called
Sønder Å or just The great Å. Not until the stretch below Silkeborg
did the stream carry the name Guden Å, which means "the one
consecrated to the gods". In Snorri's Heimskringla the designation
Godnarfjördr is used of Randers Fjord, and in the Øm Monastery
chronicle from the beginning of the 1200's it is called Guthnesse."
Torsten