Talk:Vilarinho da Furna

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Benkeboy (talk) 16:46, 6 October 2009 (UTC) Benkeboy (talk) 10:43, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Cleto2001 : Joel Cleto and Suzana Faro, | Nos 30 anos do Parque Nacional da Peneda-Gerês. A Memória de Vilarinho das Furnas. O Comércio do Porto. Revista Domingo, Porto, 29 April 2001, p. 20-22.
 * Antunes2005 : Manuel de Azevedo Antunes, A Barragem de Vilarinho da Furna, Arraianos IV October 2005
 * Dias1983 : Jorge Dias. Vilarinho da Furna: Uma Aldeia Comunitária. Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda. Lisboa, 1983 (In Portuguese)
 * EDP2003 : EDP Annual Sustainability Report 2003
 * RTP2005: RTP broadcast, Memorial Sites III Vilarinho das Furnas, 29 minutes, Image: João Luis Azevedo, Sound António Garcia, Video edit: Paulo Alexandre, Image search: Luisa Vaz & Sofia Leite, Audio post-production: António Garcia, Production: Ana Lucas, Programming: Sofia Leite, RTP 2005

Latin origin
Vilarinho means small village in Portuese, -inho is a very commonly used diminutive suffix in Northern Portugal. da(s) Furna(s) is a bit trickier. Prof. Antunes suggested latin "furnus" meaning oven albeit he claims it also means cavity. "Cavea", "caverna" or "cavum" mean cavity in latin. The nearest I have found to furnas are "fornax" and "fornacis" meaning oven, furnace or kiln. my source. The area indeed has many rocks and pits. But for how long has it looked like this? Where the hills ever forested? I think deforestation is quite common when the wood is used for construction and making fire (oven, kilns etc). Benkeboy (talk) 10:53, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

River name
Is the local river the "Homen" or the "Homem"? The former is used in the article; but a Google search suggests that it might be the latter.


 * --Ammodramus (talk) 13:47, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

I happened onto this article by chance and found it fascinating. The English needed some work (though it's infinitely better than my Swedish or Portuguese), and I did some reorganizing as well.

I've fixed most of it, but there's one major question remaining. In the initial paragraph, the location was given as: "It is located along the River Homen (at circa 500 meter over the sea) up to Ribeira do Eido". I don't understand the relationship between Rio Homem, Ribeira do Eido, and the village. Is the village at the junction of the Ribeira do Eido with the Rio Homem? On the Homem above the junction? Below the junction? I tried reading the Swedish WP article, in the hope that Swedish would resemble German, of which I know a very little. It didn't help: prepositions seem to fare poorly in translating from one language to another, and I was left understanding no more than when I began. It would help if the original author, or someone fluent in Swedish, provided clarification.
 * --Ammodramus (talk) 02:14, 8 March 2010 (UTC)


 * I will try to figure out where Ribeira do Eido is/was. I cant find it on google maps. There was a bridge called "ponte do Eido" that connected two parts of the village. Eido in Portuguese refers to a small plot of land. I think the book by Delmira Calado contains a map over the village. Benkeboy (talk) 17:45, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I have just asked one of the villagers. The village itself was also referred to as "the place" ie Eido. Furnas and Eido rivers are the same, i.e. the stretch of Rio Furnas inside the village was called Ribeiro do Eido. Benkeboy (talk) 18:06, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

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