Don Russell wrote: [I have moved his response below] > "Håvard Moe" <haavamoe@online.no> wrote in message > news:mom07tc71ehhqsv1nva4k6g6ovj9is4qrb@4ax.com... > > On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:05:14 -0800, "Don Russell" <snobrd@prodigy.net> > > wrote: > > > > >Found a reference to Eagle Foot, Norway. Can anyone guess what this > refers > > >to and/or where the place is? > > > > It would help if you can tell us in what context the reference was > > found. > > On an old family tree my grandmother's birthplace was listed as "Eagle Foot, > Norway. No documentation was supplied > Any other information may be helpful: her first name and patronymic, her year of birth, her husbands name, where she lived after leaving Norway, something special that she owned, etc. Such information may narrow the search to a part of the country. "Eagle Foot" can literally be translated to (or from) "ørnefot" ("ørn"=eagle), as mentioned by others; or to "ar(n)efot" or "ar(n)afot" ("ar(n)e" = eagle"). Arne (="eagle") is a common first name in Norway, and many places have got their name after an arne. Moreover, "Eagle Foot" may also be a transcription of a Norwegian name that looks/hears like the English version (say, "Igle-", "Egle-"); or even a misinterpretation of the Norwegian name. One (remark: hypothetical) possibility is a combination: "Arnefet". Here, "fet" is a meadow, but "fet" may also (in other contexts) mean feet or footsteps. Arne is a male name which means "eagle". Then, "Eagle Foot" is not far away. Ivar S. Ertesvåg