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Titel: SV: Translation help
Skrivet av: Kalle Birgersson skrivet 2020-02-06, 14:48
I leave the question of the owls for Kalle to answer. ;)

Kind regards,
And I'm sure there are owls there, they are everywhere in Sweden!  :)
But that lake, Öllesjön, I have a theory. Vowels change more than other parts of words, and it might not have been Ö allways. What if it was once Alesjön, or Ällesjön? Al is the swedish name for the tree Alder, a wetland tree growing in riparian areas all over the country. And a group of alders was called "Ale" or "Äle" or even "Älle". There is even a farm in Hällaryd parish that is called "Ällestad". Stad means place and Älle means a stand of alder trees.

http://www.isof.se/download/18.5850f85e15732ead0b319be/1529495844281/Ortnamnen%20i%20Blekinge%20l%C3%A4n%20Br%C3%A4kne%20h%C3%A4rad.pdf (http://www.isof.se/download/18.5850f85e15732ead0b319be/1529495844281/Ortnamnen%20i%20Blekinge%20l%C3%A4n%20Br%C3%A4kne%20h%C3%A4rad.pdf)