..and Gropgränd in Stockholm
Stockholms gatunamn
Nils-Gustaf Stahre, Nils-Olof Stahre - 1992
p 222 En mera tillfällig namnbildning är Gropgränd (Grope gränden 1728').
---- Mats Wahlberg <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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
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> Associate Professor Mats Wahlberg
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> Från: The English Place-Name List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] För Keith
> Briggs
> Skickat: den 12 september 2011 10:25
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> Ämne: [EPNL] Gropgatan
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>
> 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?
>
>
>
> Keith
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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]",
>
> year= "1981",
>
> publisher="Helsingin Kaupungin Julkaisuja",
>
> address= "Helsinki",
>
> }
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--
Tom Ikins
The Roman Map of Britain
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