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Dear Keith,

I will be away from Uppsala until Sept. 26th but can answer you when back
again (there is also Gropgränd in Uppsala).

Best wishes

Mats

 

Associate Professor Mats Wahlberg

Head of Department of Onomastics

Institute for Language and Folklore

Visiting address: von Kraemers allé 19

Postal address: Box 135, SE-751 04 Uppsala, Sweden

tel: +46 18 65 21 60, -80 (direct)

+46 707 52 17 18

 

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www.sofi.se

 

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Ämne: [EPNL] Gropgatan

 

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.

 

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.)

 

Is there any Scandinavian specialist on this list who can say what Gropgatan
means and whether the name recurs elsewhere in Sweden?

 

Keith

 

@book{Helsingin_kadunnimet,

  author="Aulis Oja et al.",

  title="Helsingin kadunnimet [Helsinki street-names]",

  year=     "1981",

  publisher="Helsingin Kaupungin Julkaisuja",

  address=  "Helsinki",

}