Name Research
The Language Collections houses several name collections, mainly place-names. The collections are used both for research and in the administration of the Norwegian Place-Name Act. Some collections have been digitized, but not all are available online as of yet. Below we present the most extensive collections and most important sources and applications.
Main content
Norske stedsnavn | Norske stadnamn - a new portal for Norwegian place-names
The Language Collections have developed a website for displaying digitized datasets with place-names. The portal Norske stedsnavn | Norske Stadnamn is a platform for displaying all digitized data sets online in a single portal. This platform can handle place-names data sets regardless of size and scope. It is also possible to link to external place-name data through APIs.
The portal is a web-based service for use by everyone from name examiners, historians and geographers, to anyone interested in Norwegian town names - in the public domain for everyone.
The National Norwegian Place-Name Database
The national place-name database contains approximately 700,000 names in total from the national Norwegian Place-Name Archive Stedsnavnarkivet and Oppslagsarkivet. In addition, the database contains 3,700 original collection maps in the map archive, Kartarkivet.