Place names as markers of cultural interaction: From the Greek Μαιώτις to the Old Norse Ellipaltar through Gothic mediation
Place names as markers of cultural interaction: From the Greek Μαιώτις to the Old Norse Ellipaltar through Gothic mediation

Summary/Abstract: The paper proposes a new explanation of the origin of the hydronym Ellipaltar used by the anonymous Icelandic author in the collection of the Kings’ sagas “Fagrskinna” (ca. 1220) in a description of the events of the early 1040s. In the opinion of the authors, the hydronym originated in the Greek or Roman milieu and became part of the Old Norse-Icelandic vocabulary and mental map through Gothic mediation.

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