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)

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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",

}