Editing Ullr (section)

==Toponymy==
Ullr's name appears in several important Norwegian and Swedish place names (but not in Denmark or in Iceland). This indicates that Ullr had at some point a religious importance in Scandinavia that is greater than what is immediately apparent from the scant surviving textual references. It is also probably significant that the placenames referring to this god are often found close to placenames referring to another deity: [[Njörðr]] in Sweden and [[Freyr]] in Norway.<ref>[[Rudolf Simek|Simek, Rudolf]]. ''Dictionary of Northern Mythology'', tr. Angela Hall, Cambridge / Rochester, New York: Brewer, 1993, {{ISBN|9780859913690}}, p.&nbsp;339.</ref> Some of the Norwegian placenames have a variant form, ''Ullinn''. It has been suggested that this is the remnant of a pair of [[divine twins]]<ref name="GellingDavidson1969">{{cite book|last1=Davidson|first1=Hilda Ellis|author-link1=Hilda Ellis Davidson|last2=Gelling|first2=Peter|title=The chariot of the sun: and other rites and symbols of the northern bronze age|url=https://archive.org/details/chariotofsunothe0000gell|url-access=registration|year=1969|publisher=Praeger|page=[https://archive.org/details/chariotofsunothe0000gell/page/179 179]}}</ref> and further that there may have been a female '''Ullin''', on the model of divine pairs such as [[Fjörgyn and Fjörgynn]].<ref name="Davidson1990">{{cite book|last=Davidson|first=Hilda Ellis|title=Gods and Myths of Northern Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mxuqQRczoFYC&pg=PT112|year=1990|publisher=Penguin Books Limited|isbn=978-0-14-194150-9|page=106}}</ref> Probably Ullr's name also can be read in the former Finnish municipality of [[Ullava]] in Central Osthrobothnia Region.

===Norway===
* ''Ullarhváll'' ("Ullr's hill") - name of an old farm in [[Oslo]] and of [[Ullevaal Stadion]]
* ''Ullestad'' ("Ulle's place") - name of an old farm in [[Voss]].
* ''Ullarnes'' ("Ullr's headland") - name of an old farm in [[Rennesøy]].
* ''[[Ullerøy]]'' ("Ullr's island") - name of four old farms in [[Skjeberg]], [[Spind]], [[Sør-Odal]] and [[Vestre Moland]].
* ''[[Ullern]]'' (''Ullarvin'') ("Ullr's meadow") - name of old farms in [[Hole, Norway|Hole]], [[Oslo]], [[Ullensaker]], [[Sør-Odal]] and [[Øvre Eiker]].
* ''Ullinsakr'' ("Ullin's field") - name of two old farms in [[Hemsedal]] and [[Torpa, Norway|Torpa]] (old church site).
* ''Ullinshof'' ("Ullin's [[Heathen hof|hof]]") - name of three old farms in [[Nes, Hedmark]] (old church site), [[Nes, Akershus]] and [[Ullensaker]] (old church site).
* ''[[Ullensvang]]'' ("Ullr's field") - name of an old farm in [[Ullensvang]] (old church site).
* ''Ullinsvin'' ("Ullin's meadow") - name of an old farm in [[Vågå]] (old church site).
* ''[[Ullsfjorden]]'' ("Ullr's Fjord") - fjord in [[Troms]] county. Commonly believed to be named after Ullr, although there is some uncertainty.
* ''[[Ulvik]]'' ("Ullr's bay") - village and fjord in [[Hordaland]] county.

[[Magnus Olsen]] suggested in addition that the names of some Norwegian places including [[Ringsaker]] derive from a nickname *''Ringir'' for Ullr based on his association with [[ring-oaths]], but there is no evidence of this.<ref>[[Magnus Olsen|Olsen, Magnus]]. ''Hedenske kultminder i norske Stedsnavne'' Vol. 1, Videnskabs-Selskabet i Kristiania, Historisk-Filosofisk Klasse, 1914 no.&nbsp;4, Oslo, 1915, pp.&nbsp;220–23, cited in {{harvnb|de Vries|1970b|p=160}}.</ref>

===Sweden===
* ''[[Ulleråker Hundred|Ulleråker]]'' ("Ullr's field") [[Uppland]]
* ''[[Ultuna]]'' ("Ullr's town") [[Uppland]]
* ''[[Ullared]]'' ("Ull's clearing?") [[Halland]]
* ''[[Ullevi]]'' ("Ullr's sanctuary") [[Västergötland]]
*''Lilla Ullevi'', [[Bro, Stockholm]]. In 2500/70, excavations in have yielded the remains of a cult site.  The site is associated with Ullr based on the toponym  ''Lilla Ullevi'' ("little [[Vé (shrine)|shrine]] of Ullr"). Its most notable feature is an arrangement of rocks, dated to the [[Vendel Period]], in two "wings" with four large post holes.  A total of 65 amulet rings have been recovered in the vicinity.<ref>Mathias Bäck, Ann-Mari Hållans Stenholm, and Jan-Åke Ljung, ''Lilla Ullevi - historien om det fridlysta rummet: Vendeltida helgedom, medeltida by och 1600-talsgård : Uppland, Bro socken, Klöv och Lilla Ullevi 1:5, Jursta 3:3, RAÄ 145'', Arkeologiska uppdragsverksamheten (UV) rapporter (1982) 1605-1702, [http://samla.raa.se/xmlui/handle/raa/4593 samla.raa.se]; M. Bäck, A. Hållans Stenholm, ''Lilla Ullevi: en unik kultplats'', ''Populär arkeologi'' - 0281-014X.; 1658(27):5, 96-10; A. H. Jakobsson, Cecilia Lindblom, ''Gard ok Gravfält vid Lilla Ullevi'', Rapporter fran Arkeologikonsult 31014:9654.</ref>
* ''[[Ullvi]]'' ("Ullr's sanctuary") [[Västmanland]]
* ''[[Ullene]]'' ("Ullr's meadow") [[Västergötland]]
* ''[[Ullervad]]'' ("Ullr's place to wading") [[Västergötland]]
* ''[[Ullånger]]'' ("Ullr's bay") [[Ångermanland]]
* ''[[Ullen]]'' [[Värmland, Hagfors]] springsource lake
* ''[[Ullbro]]'' ("Ulls bridge") [[Uppland, Enköping]] 
* ''[[Ullunda]]'' ("Ulls grove") [[Uppland, Enköping]] 
* ''[[Ullstämma]]'' ("Ulls meeting") [[Uppland, Enköping]] 
* ''[[Värmullen]]'' [[Värmland, Hagfors]]
* ''[[Ullsberg]]'' ("Ull's mountain") [[Värmland, Hagfors]]

===Iceland===
Icelandic scholar Ólafur Lárusson suggested that some of the Icelandic placenames in ''Ullar-'', usually interpreted as "wool", might also be named for Ullr, especially those such as ''Ullarfoss'' and ''Ullarklettur'' that are close to similar placenames in ''Goða-'' ("gods").<ref>Ólafur Lárusson, "Kultminne i stadnamn 4. Island", in: Nils Lid, ed., ''Religionshistoria'', Nordisk kultur 26 (1942) 74–79, cited in [[Gabriel Turville-Petre|Turville-Petre, E. O. G.]], ''Myth and Religion of the North: The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia'', History of Religion, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1964, p. 183.</ref>