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PAULSSON T.

Prace Komisji Historii Nauki PAU

2012

vol. 11

7-37

In 1907 Lund University for the first time established a position for Slavonic Philology. Sigurd Agrell (1888–1937) obtained this position after a fierce competition with the already renowned scholar Tore Torbiörnsson. Sigurd Agrell had gathered an imposing material during several summer vacations in Zakopane and in 1908 he published the dissertation Aspektänderung und Aktionsartbildung (extended version was published by PAU in 1918). In it he introduced concepts on verbal morphology that for decades played a pivotal role in the description of Slavic grammar. WWI interrupted Agrell’s contact with Polish scholars. During the 1910s his main interest seems to have been Slavic historical grammar. He published several seminal papers in which he often polemizised with Tore Torbiörnsson whom he expected to see as his main rival in the competition for the professorship in Uppsala. As the chair in Uppsala unexpectedly went to Richard Ekblom, the Lund University created Chair of Slavic Philology, which Agrell held from 1921 until his death in 1937. Sigurd Agrell’s carrier was from the beginning aimed upon the Polish language but after he had obtained the chair in Lund his interests became more esotheric. He published numerous papers on the origin and symbolics of the runic alphabet and presented the audacious hypothesis that the runic characters bear traces of a mitraic cult in the eastern part of the Roman empire. Sigurd Agrell was one of the most colourful academics in Lund during the 1920s and 1930s and the anecdots about his witty sayings and bizarre pranks are numerous. In 1945 Knut-Olof Falk (1906–1990) was appointed Professor of Slavic Philology. Falk had been lecturer of Swedish in Kraków and in Kaunas in the 1930s. Already as a student he was inspired by the professor of scandinavistic philology Jöran Sahlgren who had laid the foundations of the so-called Swedish onomastic methodology. During his stays in Lithuania and Northeastern Poland Falk made thorough investigations in the waternames in the borderland between Slavic and Baltic. It resulted in his dissertation Wody wigierskie i huciańskie50 (Waterbody Names in the Counties of Huta and Wigry). In 1957 Knut-Olof Falk was invited by the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) to continue the onomastic studies in Northeastern Poland, initially as a part of the Kompleksowa Ekspedycja Jaćwieska (Complex Yatvingian Expedition), and from 1964 as leader of an independent group of Swedish scientists and students, the so-called Szwedzka Ekspedycja Jaćwieska (Swedish Yatvingian Expedition), under the auspices of PAN. The work of the expedition was carried out yearly up to the late 1970s. The so called Swedish methodology in onomastics imposes on the scientist thorough investigation of the landscape, study of nameforms used by old informants and material from historic documents. Using a combination of these methods Falk revealed that the lion’s share of the waternames in old documents e.g. Regestr sPisania Iezior…1569 is of Baltic (viz. Yatvingian) origin and later underwent slavization. Examples of the methodology applied in the field work are given in the article.

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