Submitted Name Save Gender Masculine Usage Swedish, Literature Pronounced Pron. BEERK [key] Edit Status Status [history·contributorshide contributors] Added 4/4/2008 by CSwe Edited 7/6/2014 by Beautiful Victory Meaning & History Old Norse word meaning "trading place, market place" and "birch tree". Birk Borkason is a character in Astrid Lindgren's 'Ronia the Robber's daugher'.