Eilert Ekwall (8 January 1877–23 November 1964) was a Swede who was Professor of English at Lund University from 1909 to 1942. He studied the toponymy of England, and wrote English River Names (1928), Studies on English Place- and Personal Names (1931) and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names (1936).
Further reading
O. von Feilitzen, The Published Writings of Eilert Ekwall: A Bibliography, CWK Gleerup, Lund, 1961, WorldCat catalogue record.
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