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Eerikneeme (Eerikneem)
Eric’s Cape (point, headland, foreland) on Aegna island, site of one of Estonia’s approximately 9 stone labyrinths (rough location ///slamming.grape.sinister) built by Swedish settlers from the early medieval ages to the 1700s, and known variously as Town of Troy, City or Ruins of Jerusalem, Mount Jerusalem, Virgin’s Dance or Giant’s Garden. Interestingly, its axis of symmetry is NW-SE, with its ‘entrance’ at the NW (see Loode)... Labyrinths of this nature seem to have been first recorded by Karl Ernst von Baer (see Tammsaare A.H.), one in the Kola peninsula village of Поно́й (Ponoy, derived from ‘Sami’ [dialect unspecified] pienneoi, dog river [see Piksepeni]), which a local claimed to be called Вавилонъ (Babylon). Others have been located in Boughton, UK (the outline of a labyrinth can be detected in aerial photos), Visby (Sweden), on the 30-odd-m² Russian islet Острова Виргины (Ostrova Virginy) / Länsi-Viiri (///obverse.underinsured.imposes, very small, may need to zoom in or out to see), on Hiiumaa, etc., and seem to have accompanied the ‘Viking’ migrations but, sensu Baer, may have Finnish or Russian origins. One of the island’s six roads. See also Kalavälja.
Karnapi (?)
Meaning unknown. Possible derivative of a (Swedish?) person’s name? Perhaps a modification of kanep:kanepi, hemp, cannabis? A karn:karni is a butcher’s, but not sure where this could lead (and despite its resemblance to the carn- of carnivore, karn comes, oddly, from MLG schrange / schranke, a butcher's or baker's market stall or point of sale. The -pi ending may be a contraction of -pere/-perre, see Lillepi. Area on the southern rim of Aegna island, bordering Karnepi kõrgendik, or Karnep Heights. See also Kurikneeme.
Filtri (Filter)
Filter. Named after nearby water treatment plant. Given the cemeteries nearby (see Toonela), one wonders where they obtained their activated charcoal...
