Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
From that soft-spoken friend of all Sweden's little idiosyncracies, Paddy K, a fresh cell phone snapshot of Kilnaughton abbey in Tarbert, County Kerry, south-west Ireland. The ruins are 600 years old and the site is still in use as a cemetery: among other illustrious lineages, the K clan has a family plot.
Tarbert is a common place name on the Celtic fringe, meaning "isthmus", Sw. näs, a narrow stretch of land between two bodies of water. A well-informed source assures me that the ones in Scotland are quite inferior to the Co. Kerry original.
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I just realised you might be amused by this: http://ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/2007/06/abbazia-of-chiaravalle-part-1.htm
Posted by: kai | July 18, 2007 3:25 PM
Good grief! Well, as we say in Sweden, everyone reaches beatitude with their own watery gruel...
Posted by: Martin R | July 18, 2007 3:48 PM
Tarbert/isthmus would be synonomous with Swedish ed/ede rather than näs, Martin.--
Posted by: Frans-Arne Stylegar | July 19, 2007 10:33 AM
Actually näs denotes both a long narrow promontory and an isthmus, while ed means only isthmus.
Posted by: Martin R | July 19, 2007 11:58 AM
with that be cognate w/ "nose"?
Posted by: mary e. | July 20, 2007 8:45 PM
Yes!
Posted by: Martin R | July 21, 2007 6:04 AM