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Lykilorð
Ömefni, örnefnafræði, bæjanöfn, orðsifjafræði, málsaga, nafnaorðabækur
Keywords
Place-names, onomastics, farm-names, etymology, language history, place-name dic-
tionaries
Abstract
In the introduction to the article, place-names and their study are discussed in a gen-
eral way, and then there is a discussion of some basic concems and prerequisites in
the interpretation of place-names.
Examples are given of some early place-name explanations in Icelandic writ-
ings along with a discussion of the earliest scholarly publications on Icelandic place-
names, an article on Undirfell by Björn M. Ólsen (from 1881) and Eggert Ó. Briem's
monograph on farm-names ending in -staðir (written sometime before 1893), and the
debate of three scholars in the 1920's about the meaning of various farm-names.
A special chapter concems various problems in place-name interpretation, inter
alia Þórhallur Vilmundarson's 'nature-name theory' (náttúmnafnakenningin) and the
identification of Celtic words in Icelandic place-names.
Finally, there is a discussion of how place-name interpretations are presented to
the public via the Internet, for example in the column 'Place-name of the Month'
on the home-page of The Ámi Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies. Mention is
also made of the projected edition of a place-name handbook on which the author has