Jeg har haft mit eget dom\u00e6ne ‘fern.dk’ siden 1. april 1998. Da jeg skulle v\u00e6lge dom\u00e6nenavn, var det sv\u00e6rt for mig at finde et passende navn, men endte alts\u00e5 med at v\u00e6lge ‘fern’. Jeg boede (og bor) p\u00e5 Bregner\u00f8dvej i Birker\u00f8d, s\u00e5 ‘bregne’ eller ‘bregner\u00f8d’ ville v\u00e6re oplagte muligheder. ‘bregner\u00f8d’ duede ikke, for dengang kunne man ikke bruge nationale bogstaver som \u00e6, \u00f8 og \u00e5 i dom\u00e6nenavne. Jeg var i \u00f8vrigt mest vant til at bruge engelsk i IT-sammenh\u00e6ng – overs\u00e6ttelser til dansk var der kun f\u00e5 af, og de var af meget blandet kvalitet – s\u00e5 det endte alts\u00e5 med ‘fern’, det engelske ord for bregne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I en tidligere version af disse sider havde jeg en l\u00e6ngere forklaring til benefice for engelske venner p\u00e5 hvorfor jeg valgte ‘fern’ Den f\u00e5r I lige her:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you wonder why I chose the name ‘fern’ for my domain, here is an explanation:
I live in the town of Birker\u00f8d on a street called Bregner\u00f8dvej in Danish. The suffix ‘vej’ means ‘road’ in English and Bregner\u00f8dvej is actually the road that leads to the neighboring village of Bregner\u00f8d.
The suffix ‘r\u00f8d’ in the name ‘Bregner\u00f8d’. is derived from the Danish word for a clearance in the woods (‘rydning’) and has nothing to do with the color ‘r\u00f8d’ (red). The ‘bregne’ part of the word is simply Danish for the plant ‘fern’. So apparently the village of Bregner\u00f8d is situated at a place that was once a clearance filled with fern.
So when I had to choose a simple, short name for my domain and I live on Bregner\u00f8dvej, ‘fern’ was one of the first that came to my mind, and I ended up by choosing it.
BTW, the suffix ‘r\u00f8d’ is quite common here in North Zealand, but it is usually connected with a man’s name. E.g. Birker\u00f8d lies in what was a clearance made by a viking called Birk. ‘Birk’ is also the Danish name for the tree called birch, but the learned people say that the former explanation (that it was made by a man called Birk) is the better of the two.
City (or village) names ending in ‘r\u00f8d’ date back to the 12th century or so.
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Jeg har haft mit eget dom\u00e6ne ‘fern.dk’ siden 1. april 1998. Da jeg skulle v\u00e6lge dom\u00e6nenavn, var det sv\u00e6rt for mig at finde et passende navn, men endte alts\u00e5 med at v\u00e6lge ‘fern’. Jeg boede (og bor) p\u00e5 Bregner\u00f8dvej i Birker\u00f8d, s\u00e5 ‘bregne’ eller ‘bregner\u00f8d’ ville v\u00e6re oplagte muligheder. ‘bregner\u00f8d’… L\u00e6s mere