Throwendham

English

Etymology

From Throwends +‎ -ham; a calque of Old Norse Þróndheimr, based on Old English Þrōwendas pl (“Thronds, people from Trøndelag”). Doublet of Throndham.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθrəʊ(ə)ndəm/

Proper noun

Throwendham

1. (rare, historical) Trøndelag
   • 1905, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Origines Islandicae, page 34:

     Col-grim the Old, [son] of Hrod-wulf, the herse or lord, and of Unna, daughter of Hacon, the son of Earl Grit-garth, after whom Grit-garth’s howe, south of Agda-ness, is called, went out of Throwendham to Iceland, and took in settlement Nether Whale-frith-strand from Blue-shaw-water to Lax-water, and out to the brook that falls out from Sourby, and dwelt at Four-horn.

   • 1908, W. G. Collingwood, Scandinavian Britain (Early Britain), London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, →OCLC, page 18:

     North of Throwend-ham or Thrond-heim lies Neam-dale with its coast station, Hrafnista, and, north of that, Haloga-land’s barren five degrees of latitude stretch along by the sea, north-east, ending in West-firth and the great islands that head the Skerry, islands only visited by Finnish fowlers, fishers or huntsmen in those far-off days.

Related terms

• Throwends (“people of Trøndelag”)

Translations

a region of Norway

• Danish: Trondhjem, Trøndelag c, Trøndelav c
• Faroese: Tróndheimur m, Trøndaløg, Tróndaløg
• German: Drontheim, Druntheim, Drundheim
• Icelandic: Þrándheimur m, Þrændalög n pl
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Trøndelag (no)

  Nynorsk: Trondheim m, Tråndheim m, Trøndelag n pl

• Old Norse: Þróndheimr m, Þrǿndalǫg n pl
• Swedish: Trondhem, Tröndelag c