Juan Sebastian Elkano izen-deiturei buruzko irizpena

Abstract

In the historiography of the Basque Country and abroad, the name and surname of the famous sailor from Getaria have been cited in many ways. It has recently been decided which is the regulated written spelling in Basque: Juan Sebastián Elkano. This article summarizes the reasons for this writing. To do this, on the one hand, we give an account of the arguments put forward by the archives, and on the other hand, we give an account of the arguments put forward by each other to write the name in more than one way. After seeing the variants of the name, we have also dealt with the Spanish preposition “de”, which has been used between the name and the surname, and which has no place in Basque academic writing.