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Kristna personnamnselement?
No full textSummary Christian personal name elements? The personal name elements Böt- and Likn-, -likn have been interpreted as 'penitence' and `mercy' respectively. It has been claimed that they were introduced by Christians, in order to form names appropriate to the new religion. According to this theory, Bot- was introduced in seventh-century England, whence it spread to Scandinavia and the High German area; likn, on the other hand, seems to have been exclusively Gotlandic and Swedish. The main argument for the theory is that the elements in question are not found in pre-Christian sources. The existence of the element Krist- shows that Christian elements could be incorporated in the old system of dithematic names. There is, however, some evidence that the existence of Bot- in continental Germanic sources precedes the introduction of Christianity, and it seems likely that both Bot- and likn are of pre-Christian origin on Gotland. The original meaning of the elements can in my opinion, judging by the Scandinavian evidence, probably be roughly rendered as lelp, improvement' , a meaning to which there are numerous parallels among Scandinavian personal name elements. However, it is quite possible that the elements later came to be associated, to a greater or lesser extent, with the Christian concepts referred to
At Dusk a Cry was Heard... : Popular Belief in Magic and Superstition in Gotland
No full textFöreliggande framställning visar den betydelse som trosföreställningar och sägner hade för människorna på Gotland under främst sista hälften av 1600-talet och de första årtiondena av 1700-talet. Boken behandlar trosföreställningar och berättelser om övernaturliga fenomen och väsen. Den är avsedd att framvisa den stora betydelse dylika företeelser hade för människorna i gången tid och hur tro och dikt påverkade deras uppfattning av omvärlden och präglade deras beteende. De två första kapitlen är avsedda att ge en inblick i den tankevärld som fanns och bilda en bakgrund till det tredje kapitlet som behandlar en trolldomsprocess i Visby och dess följder
Från götarna till Noreens kor : Hyllningsskrift till Lennart Elmevik på 60-årsdagen 2 februari 1996
No full textInnehåll Jan Agertz: Grönstad på Visingsö Zeth Alvered: Några binamn och andra personbeteckningar i Gregers Matssons räkenskaper Thorsten Andersson: Götar Erik Olof Bergfors: Personnamnet Trond i övredalska ortnamn och gårdsnamn Eva Brylla: Fornsvenska mansbinamn av typen Dyna, Gylta och Stura Lennart Dehlin: Knokarna och Knokrå Anita Eldblad: Personnamnsskicket i två av de uppländska markgäldslängderna 1312 Staffan Fridell: Namnet Kinnevalds härad Lennart Hagåsen: Moljan, Möljen och molo 'vågbrytare' Katharina Leibring: Namn i Noreens ladugårdar. Prosten Erik Noreens kreatursbesättning 1749 Eva Nyman: ÅsundaLennart Ryman: Kristna personnamnselement? Karl Inge Sandred: The boundaries of Godmersham in Kent as described in BCS 378 Per Stille: Myskia — ett sörmländskt runstensnamn Svante Strandberg: Avla och Månad Mats Wahlberg: Kyrkgränden och Pinngränden. Namn på byklungor och sockendelar Per Vikstrand: Kan ortnamnselementen skälv, fsv, skialf, skiœlf, ja haft en sakral innebörd? Henrik Williams: Till tolkningen av personnamnen på Gnistastene
The Notion of the Ideal Record : A Study of Idea and Practice at Tradition-Collecting Archives — A Case from Uppsala 1914-1945
No full textThis dissertation deals with the work of documenting Swedish folk culture at the Institute of Dialect and Folklore Research in Uppsala. This work is analyzed as a scholarly field and from the perspective of power and resistance structures. The investigation has to do with the gathering of material from the perspective of ideas and of practice. On the ideological plane the purpose of the work of the Archive was to create true and objective historical documents concerning folk culture, factual and linguistic information taken directly from the people, representative parts that could be brought together in larger, functional units. Reality was to be investigated in all its range. In practice, on the basis of their special competence and interests, researchers by making a subjective choice decided exactly which factual areas were to be investigated. No unified investigation was therefore achieved. Instead, traditional rural culture was chosen for investigation. Certain factual and/or geographical areas were given priority while others were rejected. By means of various strategies the researchers tried to influence the collectors in the field to gather the sort of information that the Archive wished to have. What was collected, however, was also influenced by the interests and knowledge of the collectors and was therefore the result of an agreement between the researchers and the collectors. The whole enterprise was primarily conducted as a rescue operation, in which the oldest, the most threatened and the most popular cultural elements were to be collected. The old tradition was made to represent stability and continuity. What was modern, learned or literary was eliminated in favour of what was regarded as traditional and genuine. The enterprise entailed a sort of cultural criticism by the researchers of their own turbulent, contemporary world and of the working classes, which were made to represent modern and artificial culture. The material that was gathered, therefore, was not primarily a contribution to an understanding of the popular culture of the 19th century, but rather commentaries on and criticisms of culture at the moment of recording it. It therefore tells us more about the modern human being of the early 20th century that about rural life in the 19th century.Doktorsavhandling för filosofie doktorsexamen i etnologi framlagd vid Uppsala universitet 1996.</p
Popular bird names : Specific names for snipes in Scandinavian languages
No full textIn Scandinavian languages there are many popular bird names, most of which have been recorded in the dialect archives in the Nordic countries. The thesis concentrates on the bird names for snipes, i.e. the common snipe, the great snipe, the jacksnipe and the woodcook, in all approx. 330 different names. Some of these are recognized throughout Scandinavia, while others are only sparsely confirmed in single dialects. An especially large number of names refer to the common snipe, mainly due to its typical vibrating sound. Since the sound resembles a certain unobtrusive whinny from a horse or bleat from a goat or a sheep, many of the names contain words associating to these animals. Names describing a creaking sound mostly refer to the woodcock. Fairly common are names describing the protruding beak, a characteristic feature of all snipes. In order to give a complete semantic and etymological picture, all words forming part of the names have been identified and sorted by category, i.e. words indicating a common implicit meaning. The categories in turn have been divided into two main groups: words describing different sounds, and words describing visual impressions. In addition, names describing popular beliefs and those transferred from other bird species are presented. Factors that influence origin, formation, existence and development of bird names have been considered. With the etymological discussion forming the necessary background, ethnological aswell as cultural influences complete the picture of the naming process. Man's need for identification and classification of phenomena in his environment as well as the presence vs. lack of affect are important factors in the process. As is shown, a striking sound along with a particular appearence has inspired many affected popular names, while scientific names largely refer to visual, non-affected impressions. Due to man's present lack of everyday connection with nature many of the popular bird names presented are no longer in use. However, some of the names prove to be fairly young, which shows that the process of popular classification and naming is still a functioning part of our language and culture.Doktorsavhandling vid Uppsala universitet, 1996.</p