Talk:Avon-huvil

RFV discussion: April 2019

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Avon-huvil

Old Saxon - a place (what place?) Any takers? SemperBlotto (talk) 08:31, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

The user who added this added many more unidentifiable Old Saxon toponyms, in the process consistently mangling the Christian name of the author of the source of these entries from Moritz to Mortiz.  --Lambiam 18:05, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

This is tricky. There may not be any modern place that this can be identified with, as places are not only founded over time but also sometimes abandoned or absorbed into others, or their names forgotten. From such old sources it's not always clear what the place name is referring to, let alone whether it matches a modern-day place. So then "a place" is really all we can do in terms of definition, perhaps specifying that it is thought to lie in some general area (northern Germany, given that it's Old Saxon).

Of course, if the name doesn't meet the attestation criteria then that's another matter altogether. However, I did point out that there is some ambiguity regarding the language of such place names (see discussion). They may appear in Latin texts rather than Old Saxon texts and are designated as Old Saxon because they are place names in Old Saxon-speaking areas and are clearly not Latin exonyms. —Rua (mew) 17:37, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

@Leornendeealdenglisc (Pinging user in question in case they wish to comment.) — Mnemosientje (t · c) 06:43, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Cited (as Avon-huvil and not Avonhuvil, the creator of the entry missed the "-" which was also missing in Aldon-Hotnon and probably more entries). --Brown*Toad (talk) 13:21, 14 April 2019‎ (UTC)