Re-Naming Jerusalem: A Note on Associative Etymology in the Vernacular North
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Myrvoll, Klaus Johan. "Chapter 2 Re-Naming Jerusalem: A Note on Associative Etymology in the Vernacular North". Tracing the Jerusalem Code: Volume 1: The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (ca. 1100–1536), edited by Kristin B. Aavitsland and Line M. Bonde, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2021, pp. 42-48.Abstract
As is the case with several cities and places that they came in contact with, the Norsemen had their own name for Jerusalem: Jórsalir, sometimes expanded and amplified to Jórsalaborg “the city of Jerusalem” or Jórsalaland “the land of Jerusalem”, that is, “the Holy Land.” This chapter is a brief survey of the name’s etymology and possible connotations in the Old Norse world.
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