Bruken av navneparene "kvener - Kvenland" og "finner - Finland" i tekster fra middelalderen. En kildekritisk gjennomgang
The article deals with the name pairs Kven and Finn(e) and Kvenland - Finland in medieval texts, on one hand in Old Norse and the other hand in Old Swedish. Scholars have traditionally thought that the ethnonym kven referred specifically to an ancient Finnish people living on both sides of the Gulf...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:fca98eefa19a4eedac5278c139427275 2023-05-15T18:14:47+02:00 Bruken av navneparene "kvener - Kvenland" og "finner - Finland" i tekster fra middelalderen. En kildekritisk gjennomgang Eira Söderholm 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z https://doaj.org/article/fca98eefa19a4eedac5278c139427275 DA NO SV dan nor swe Novus forlag http://ojs.novus.no/index.php/NON/article/view/2026 https://doaj.org/toc/0800-4684 https://doaj.org/toc/2703-7371 0800-4684 2703-7371 https://doaj.org/article/fca98eefa19a4eedac5278c139427275 Namn og Nemne, Vol 38 (2021) Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar P101-410 article 2021 ftdoajarticles 2022-12-31T07:12:28Z The article deals with the name pairs Kven and Finn(e) and Kvenland - Finland in medieval texts, on one hand in Old Norse and the other hand in Old Swedish. Scholars have traditionally thought that the ethnonym kven referred specifically to an ancient Finnish people living on both sides of the Gulf of Bothnia, and the regional name Kvenland would have meant the area inhabited by this northern people. The ethnonym Finn(e), on the other hand, would have referred in Swedish as well as Old Norse to the people who lived in southwestern Finland; in Norwegian also to the Sámi people. The region name Finland would have meant the southwestern Finland in both languages. In this article I try to argue that this is not the case. My argument is that, the Swedes originally used the word Finne of all Finnish-speaking tribes living north of the Gulf of Finland, and the region name Finland would have referred to the entire area where they lived. Old Norse-speakers, on the other hand, used the ethnonym Kven of the same tribes that the Swedes called Finne, and the regionname Kvenland was not limited to refering to the coast of the Gulf of Bothnia. Thus, the ethnonyms Finn(e) and Kven and the region names Kvenland and Finland would have been synonyms used by two different groups of language users. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sámi Sámi Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Finn ENVELOPE(12.739,12.739,65.935,65.935) |
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The article deals with the name pairs Kven and Finn(e) and Kvenland - Finland in medieval texts, on one hand in Old Norse and the other hand in Old Swedish. Scholars have traditionally thought that the ethnonym kven referred specifically to an ancient Finnish people living on both sides of the Gulf of Bothnia, and the regional name Kvenland would have meant the area inhabited by this northern people. The ethnonym Finn(e), on the other hand, would have referred in Swedish as well as Old Norse to the people who lived in southwestern Finland; in Norwegian also to the Sámi people. The region name Finland would have meant the southwestern Finland in both languages. In this article I try to argue that this is not the case. My argument is that, the Swedes originally used the word Finne of all Finnish-speaking tribes living north of the Gulf of Finland, and the region name Finland would have referred to the entire area where they lived. Old Norse-speakers, on the other hand, used the ethnonym Kven of the same tribes that the Swedes called Finne, and the regionname Kvenland was not limited to refering to the coast of the Gulf of Bothnia. Thus, the ethnonyms Finn(e) and Kven and the region names Kvenland and Finland would have been synonyms used by two different groups of language users. |
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Bruken av navneparene "kvener - Kvenland" og "finner - Finland" i tekster fra middelalderen. En kildekritisk gjennomgang |
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Bruken av navneparene "kvener - Kvenland" og "finner - Finland" i tekster fra middelalderen. En kildekritisk gjennomgang |
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Bruken av navneparene "kvener - Kvenland" og "finner - Finland" i tekster fra middelalderen. En kildekritisk gjennomgang |
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Bruken av navneparene "kvener - Kvenland" og "finner - Finland" i tekster fra middelalderen. En kildekritisk gjennomgang |
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Bruken av navneparene "kvener - Kvenland" og "finner - Finland" i tekster fra middelalderen. En kildekritisk gjennomgang |
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bruken av navneparene "kvener - kvenland" og "finner - finland" i tekster fra middelalderen. en kildekritisk gjennomgang |
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