Resumen de Ingevald Panka and Kalle Braxen Bynames in Medieval Arboga and Modern Sigtuna
The aim of this study is to examine the bynames represented in the medieval town court record book of Arboga and in an oral corpus from 20th-century Sigtuna. I analyse the data mostly from a name-semantic point of view and categorise them into the following groups: names which originate in a person’s ‘descent and kinship’, ‘origin and place of residence’, ‘occupation and social status’, ‘external characteristics’, ‘internal characteristics’, ‘clothing and equipment’, or ‘habits and events’. I have also added a morphological group ‘names which are a play on or formed from a family name’. The study shows that there are examples of bynames from both periods in all of these categories except the last one, which is found exclusively in the modern corpus.
