Question as in the title. I dont know if this sub is the right place to ask this, but I´ve always wondered why the english name for Nürnberg is written with an additional E and an M. Are there any historic reasons for that, like a translation mistake? Thanks for any answers
Norinberga and Nuremberga are actually both attested in Latin. Martin Luther and Albrecht Durer, who are almost contemporaries, use the two, respectively, at least some of the time.
I study that era (15-16C) Germany, and 'n' and 'm' do get interchanged in people's names with some frequency--including in their own writing of them; spelling wasn't anywhere near standardized yet.
I'm not sure why English writers settled into the m and German writers into the n, except just generally repeating what was written in popular texts over time (if Luther used 'n'...). But both options were there to inspire.