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Name Change as a Consequence of Monastic Ownership

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2009
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Agertz, Jan

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The normal assumption is that old Swedish habitation names are original, and the first recorded for a farm
or hamlet. There are however other examples – even medieval. The most common reason for a name
change was when a farm or hamlet was changed into a mansion, and its original name was considered to be
too ignoble. In those cases, one could create a completely new name (e.g., 'Cathrineholm' for 'Horsarp') but
equally common was to simply add the word 'säteri' (mansion) to an existing name (e.g., 'Hulta säteri' for
'Hulta').

But there is another reason for name change that I want to present in my paper. From the mid 12th
century, Christianity began to spread and monasteries were established in southern Sweden. Monasteries
gradually became owners of large numbers of farms, some of which got new names beginning in 'Munk-'
(monk) or 'Kloster-' (monastery). For most of these, we cannot trace the older and original names, but there
are some interesting examples of the opposite, based on careful examination of medieval documents. This
is what my paper will present.
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Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciences
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