Editing Egersund (section)

===Name===
The town (originally the [[prestegjeld|parish]]) is named after the Eigersundet strait ({{langx|non|Eikundarsund}}). The first element is the [[genitive case]] of the name of the island of ''Eikund'' (now [[Eigerøya]]). The name of the island comes from the word {{wikt-lang|non|eik}} which means "[[oak]]" followed by the [[suffix]] {{lang|non|-und}} which means "plentiful of" (i.e. "the island covered with oak trees"). The last element is {{wikt-lang|non|sund}} which means "[[strait]]" or "[[sound (geography)|sound]]". The name is among the oldest place names in Norway. It can already be found in the form ''Eikundarsund'' in the [[Norse saga]] of [[Olav the Holy]], written by Icelandic author [[Snorri Sturlasson]] in the 13th century. From around the year 1000 Olav the Holy's fleet was here often. We can also find the name in texts and [[Scaldic poetry|scaldic poem]]s from Olav's saga.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rygh |first=Oluf |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u4pBAAAAIAAJ |title=Norske gaardnavne: Stavanger amt |date=1915 |publisher=W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri |edition=10 |location=Kristiania, Norge |page=78 |language=no |authorlink=Oluf Rygh}}</ref>

;"Egersund" vs. "Eigersund"
During the 1910s, the name of the municipality was changed from ''Egersund'' to ''Eigersund'', but the town of Egersund within [[Eigersund Municipality]] kept the old spelling. The form of the name spelled without the [[diphthong]] [ei] (''Egersund'') is the [[Danish language]] form of the name and at that time the municipal name was changed to use the Norwegian language form. The town kept the old spelling for historic purposes.