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þorp

nafnorðhvorugkyn
[ þaurp = ἀγρός, once in Nehem. v. 16; and þorp; Old thorp; and dorf; turba is taken to be the same word: this word, we think, was originally applied to the cottages of the poorer peasantry crowded together in a hamlet, instead of each house standing in its own enclosure, like the ‘tún’ or ‘bær’ or ‘garðr’ of the ‘búandi,’ hence þorpari = a churl (see below); the etymological sense being a crowd, throng, as seen in þyrpast, þyrping (qq. v.), as also in turba]:
I. a hamlet, village, rarely of an isolated farm; fóru þau um kveldit í annat þorp skamt þaðan, … Þorsteinn hét þar bóndi, i. 189 (in East-Norway), x. 219; margir vóru búendr þar í þorpinu, 151; til Níðaróss, þar var þorp nokkut sett ok kaupstaðr, x. 294; um þorp ok um bæi (Scotland), 78; in 108, þorp ef þrír eru, …
2. when used of foreign countries it means a thorp or village; borgir, kastalar, þorp, vii. 94; þorp ok tún, 631; Írar hlaupa saman í eitt þorp, 78; borg eða þorp, 96, 183; þar (in Frisland) varð brátt fyrir þeim þorp eitt ok bygðu þar margir bændr, 528: villa is rendered ‘þorp,’ 132, (St.), (= Matt. xxii. 5); þorpin stóðu á bryggjunum ok mikit fjölmenni í þeim þorpum (of London), 10: , þrætu-þorp, the abode of quarrel, the mouth, vi. (in a verse).3. the word occurs twice in poets in the same sense as in the , a land; hrörnar þöll sú er stendr þorpi á, hlýrat henni börkr né barr, 49 (here ‘þorp’ seems to mean a field, fenced place, or garden, as to the ‘wood’); þrjár þjóðár falla þorp yfir meyja Mögþrasis, three great rivers fall over the field of the Norns, 49.
II. very as the second compd of local names, as -trup, or -rup dropping the t, Hos-trup, Kra-rup, Kolde-rup, Vins-trup, Sverd-rup; but in early -torp or -thorp, thus Bukke-thorp, Thume-thorp, Ny-thorp = Nyrup, and in many names of places, see Thorkel. passim; so also -thorp and -dorf: in Norway such local names are rare, in Iceland still more so, yet a Þorpar, , occurs in western Iceland, in Stranda-sýsla, called ‘í Þorpum.’ The reason is that in flat countries cottages lie closer together than in a mountainous country.
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