"Inger Eik" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > I'm asking on behalf of a friend whose last name is Furholt. He lives in > southern Norway, in the county of Aust-Agder, and his name comes from the > name of his farm, which is very old. He got a photo sent from Iceland by a > friend, showing a road sign with the place name Næfurholt. This is situated > somewhere south east of Reykjavik. > > The question is: Does anyone have any knowledge on how to find out where the > people came from, who named that place? He would of course be very > interested to find out if they could have been settlers from Norway, from > his part of the country. without googling it to death I would contact Reykavik University Hugh W