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Descriptive Bynames – Locatives
*Locatives were the second most common type of byname, after patronymics. (See http://www.s-gabriel.org/1919)
*Locatives only in use if you live somewhere other than the place named in the locative
*Examples: in bareyeska (“woman from the Hebrides”), breiðdælski (“man from Broad-Dale”), inn enski (“Englishman”), in flamska (“woman from Flanders”), inn gauzki (“man from Gautland”), inn grenzki (“man from Greenland”), inn norræni (“Norwegian”), á Englandi (“from England”), á Írlandi (“from Ireland”), á Skotlandi (“from Scotland”), í Danmörk (“from Denmark”), í Svipjóð (“from Sweden”), í Jórvík (“of York”)