I wouldn't call myself a Scandinavian specialist, but in browsing a bit this morning I gathered that:
There are more than one Gropgatans - one in Stockholm, one in Malmo, and it seems that there are others.
The term appears to indicate an un-maintained or ill-maintained road, presumably with pot-holes.
I'll look some more this evening.
---- Keith Briggs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In my paper in Journal of the English Place-name Society 41, 26-39 (2009) I discuss several English streets called Grope Lane or similar.
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> I now note a street in Turku called Gropgatan in Swedish and Kruoppikatu in Finnish (p.9 in the book below; also mentioned in the probably derivative http://www.uwasa.fi/materiaali/pdf/isbn_952-476-038-X.pdf ; no date given in either source.)
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> Is there any Scandinavian specialist on this list who can say what Gropgatan means and whether the name recurs elsewhere in Sweden?
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> @book{Helsingin_kadunnimet,
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> author="Aulis Oja et al.",
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> title="Helsingin kadunnimet [Helsinki street-names]",
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> year= "1981",
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> publisher="Helsingin Kaupungin Julkaisuja",
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> address= "Helsinki",
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> }
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