Map Reference: Mannal 16
Name Type: shore
Meaning: This is ON skarfr (genitive skarfa) ‘cormorant ... frequent in local names Skarfa-klettr’ (CV, 539) with ON klettr ‘sea rock’.
There is a Skarvkletten in Alvdal, Norway (NG), and Skarvaklettur occurs seven times among settlement names in the Faroe Islands (KO).
Other Forms: Sgaracleit Mòr - WL.
Related Places:
Information: A fishing rock.
Local Form:
Languages : Norse, GaelicInformants: Jessie MacKinnon (Teasaidh Lachainn), Mannal, 11/1993
Informant 2: Willie Lamont, Mannal, 9/1995
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