Browsing Høgskulen på Vestlandet by Journals "Namn og Nemne : Tidsskrift for norsk namnegransking"
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Er det så sikkert at alle er namn? Ein merknad om metode og personnamn i urnordiske runeinnskrifter
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)This article discusses how we can determine which nouns in the Proto-Scandinavian runic corpus are names and which are bynames or appellatives. With regard to making definite distinctions, it seems that the criteria have ... -
Etternamnsbruk i Luster kommune i to hundre år
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article discusses the evolution of surnames in Luster municipality, which until 1963 was divided into three smaller, separate districts (Hafslo, Jostedal, and Luster itself). The aim is to investigate surname usage ... -
Jomfruland, Jungfrun, Landegode og Godøya på Sunnmøre – ikkje farlege, men reine og gode?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article presents new explanations for the following names: Godøya in Sunnmøre, Western Norway; Jomfruland on the Norwegian Skagerrak coast, Jungfrun in Kalmarsund, Sweden; and Landegode, which has been used about three ... -
Namn på -sete i Indre Sogn. Nokre morfologiske og semantiske vurderingar
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This article discusses toponyms ending in -sete from Indre Sogn in Norway. Scholars disagree about -sete’s morphology (dative or nominative), denotation (natural or man-made features) and reference (hamlets, fields, or ... -
Om Aura, Patron, Revolution og tolkning av navn på travhester
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Trotters are animals that compete against each other and their names are the primary instrument for the players to distinguish between them. Different countries all have limits of about 20 years before a name can be reused. ... -
Plottet som samler. Et hermeneutisk perspektiv på kategorisering av betydning i navn på travhester
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)There are quite a lot of studies of names of different kinds of farm- and domestic animals. Four such studies originating in the Nordic countries all strive to establish what is the origin of the names they deal with. When ... -
Stjørdalen, Stjørna og Skjørin – med nokre metodevurderingar
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)In this article, I will go through previous interpretations of place-names based on Old Norse stjór- and suggest a new interpretation. Most scholars have been uncertain regarding these names. On the basis of Rygh and Kjær’s ...