Toponymy and Seafaring: Indications and Implications of Navigation along the Åland Islands



: Schalin, Johan; Frog

: Ahola, Joonas; Frog; Lucenius, Jenni

: 2014

:  The Viking Age in Åland : Insights into Identity and Remnants of Culture

: Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae Humaniora

: 372

: 273

: 302

: 978-951-41-1098-6

: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/332840


The chapter examines toponyms in the Åland archipelago against the backdrop of seafaring during the Viking Age. It evaluates more and less known etymologies for the Old Nordic words *wiking and *wikingR, and proposes e new interpretation for the etymology of the name "Åland".


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