Abstract

The parish of Älmeboda in Southern Sweden may perhaps be used as a unique case where we find slave names in place names. The parish did see a large colonization in former woodland in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. This colonization may have been an organized venture by some large land-owner, potentially the Church, where plots of land (måla) was divided up and given cottagers to become rent-paying tenants. What is unique in this case, is that the personal names in these place-names very often are extremely derogatory, which could be taken as an indication that the tenants were former slaves.

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