-
Norse form of the name was
probably Tjaldir. This is then the
plural of
tjald n 'tent'. The
hills around the farm (Kjellerhaugen and others)
might have...
- Þolmóðnir þresköldr er inn gengr, Kör sæing, Blíkjandböl ársalr
hennar eða
tjald.) Haggard, H.
Rider (1926), The Days of My Life, vol. 1, p. 245. Witton...
- (Tjöld or Tjalda). The name of the
island is
probably derived from the word
tjald which means "tent" or the
similar word
tjaldr which means "oystercatcher"...
- 'awning, cloth', from PGmc *teldan,
maybe through French taud. Cognates: ON
tjald 'tent, hangings', OE teld, OHG zelt id. Derivatives:
atoldar 'to shade'...
-
unspecific illness.
Skapti Hallgrímsson (24
January 2010). "Ævintýri
austan tjalds". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic).
Retrieved 24 June 2018.
Sigmundur Ó. Steinarsson...
