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for
comparatively
few,
that
the
greater
part
discussed
The
Danish
2 LINCOLNSHIRE
of these

Lincolnshire,
it
rayn'd
traditional
belief
in
tlie
ferocity
change of
purpose of
THE DANISH
England
plunder,
789-855;
THE DANISH
from
Grimsby,
another
wave
of
Danish
colonists
most
most
strongly
English People,
vol. i.
these
par-
ticular
districts,
almost
alone,
and
altogether
supreme.
Meanwhile,
so that
coast
and
river
line
near
Boston,
to
about
THE DANISH
may.
have
been
more
obedient
to
the
i.
y>.
286,
;
clearly
show.
Battles,
save
here
and
there,
numerous
than
which
in
former
times
most
likely
filled
bua,
to
dwell,
its
original
of the sea-
soreness
consequent
on
defeat,
the
subject
population
very
;

*
'
for sup-
posing that
early
days
blessing
alto-
gether
irrelevant,
or
without
interest,
which
has
connected
these
Kentish
from
the
North
a
reason,
retained
his
convictions
in
subsequent
editions.
south
coast
were
also
given
by
place-names.
CONNECTING LINKS.
Iceland
not
been
burst
up
from
the
sea,
not
been
discovered
by
the
Norsemen.
this
island
will
prove
that,
whatever
may
be
is
not
remote.
Chapter i.
mark
(forest)
are
found
the
land
and
con-
stituted
Southern
this part
1843),
liollon.)
Senlac
and flowing down
pottery
works.
The
allusion
is
to
Worlaby,
Oxford Essays,
a
comb,
p.
44.
THE DANE

p.
192,
185S
land,
the
ancient
mind
to
with silver
they
were
bended,
Vied
the
favour with them
description

axe
was
the
proper
name
of
a
Lochaber
them, accomplished
THE DANE
last
century,
Arthur
Young,
in
his
survey
of
agriculture,
tells
us
that,
accom-
panied
by
Sir
Joseph
Banks,
he
proceeded
in
criiim
scordiwn,
which
THE DANE
to
the
springing
from
the
living
to
another,
between
man
and
the
world
of
nature
that
ministers
to
his
wants.
of
the
many
cities
and
monasteries,
in
in
hewing
the
Runic
crosses,^
a
similar
character,
are
built
Making of
present
conclusions.
great
Unseen
Father
compounds,
person once
RECORDS OF
been
thought
by
some,-
but
represent
the
at
least
doubtful
whether
the
Norse
god
can
form.
who
and forces
bucket,
sceg.*
We
infant
world
to
amuse
the
RECORDS OF
undertook
to
indicate
a
spot,
where
mills
mifdit
be
built
record.
common
among
the
Northmen)
However this
of
a
Danish
laily
who,
at
some
very
early
period,
was
as
the
Landnamabolc
affords,
will
show
at
a
glance
found
a
permanent
place
upon
our
county
map.
against
witchcraft.
In
this
belief
it
when
name of
Barnetby,
we
also
of the North.
now
lost.
There
is
a
Kilverstone
in
Norfolk,
as
Culuertestuna
(Munford,
Local
Names
worship
C.
his
household
wolves,
Geri
and
regarded
with
j)eculiar
represented
white
;
recourse
either
absolutely
to be an
known
giant, in
names.
were
concerned.
Haddingr
was
one
of
the
early
traditional
founders
of
the
Danish
kingdom,^
any
personal
connection
with
Skeldingthorpe,
but
it
is
quite
within
the
so
frequently
as
Egill,
and
claim
remark
on
the
invasion
headed
by
Hingvar
and
Hubba
as
corroborating
the
this
sli]3
by Humljerstein.
Grantham,
there
is
a
hamlet
called
natural
good
by
Pope
Eugenius
III.
names
as
Scothern
and
Scot-
England which begin with
time,
ascribe it
with the
utmost probability
to the
Lincolnshire
Firsby
(D.
B.,
Frisebi),
the
county.^
Walesby
is
German.
(Making
of
England,
p.
122.)
guests
With
was
doubtless
done
viking.^
Amongst
the
102 LINCOLNSHIRE
ward
Farer.
It
is
struck
e.g.
D.
most
probable
its
original
end
become new.
would call
*
country,
doubtless,
rather
than
from
Norway,
that
RECORDS OF
struggle
Lincolnshire
hills.
The
whole
country
side
abounds
with
sepulchral
records.
modern
Swedish
form
is
Jiog,
and
large
realm, is mentioned in the
Hundred
Rolls
as
Jordeburg
and
Jertheburg.
These
more
ancient
forms
of
the
Yarborough
is
almost
identical
with
the
Old
Norse
scene is laid
in Denmark. Amid
has-
hurried
by.
It
is
soon
followed
by
a
carriage
with
six
passengers.
Four
to follow
and
nature.
And
as
Hans
Andersen
thus
took
a
stone-heap
for
from
the
survives
Danish
traced,
without
improba-
bility,
to
Enderby.
It
is
true
that
the
configuration
their
first
arrival,
would
take
of the
RECORDS OF
Danish term,
seventeenth
century
the
s
is
still
dairy
Saxon
chronicler,
who
tells
of
the
parcelling
out
undoubtedly
to
be
traced
to
Old
a
nook
or
angle,
horn)
is
only
used
to
is
used
as
the
is
in
some
degree
supported
by
of
Skirbeck
almost
fen
district
generally.
Skierbek,
Skiarup,
Skiering,
the
neighbouring
hill.
that
such
a
name
as
Dani by early
cottager.
Thus,
then
in
Bonby,
near
a
Bole
on
of
a
and
ButvarSr
is
found
on
ancient
Runic
of
or
the
farm
by
the
holt.
In
this
last
case
it
for in PI.
Jutland
stavn
(another
form
records.
RECORDS OF
angelica
sup-
posed
to
inte-
resting
notice
of
Sclina
carvifolia
see
Report
of
Botanical
Record
Club,
1S80
from hvbnn
and
strictly
Danish
vcenge
(Old
Norse
vengi)
was
not
unfamiliar.
as early
appears
as
Reytheby.
by
szvithen,
to
burn,
in
the
Craven
dialect.
In
wold
and
sloping
towards
may
formerly
have
been,
Survey),^
looks
know
the
original
traced
from
Gunby
1 62
name.
In
the
corruption
of
Cockchafer),
is
a
its
own
distinctive
suffix.'-^
There
can
be
little
doubt
that
coggles
In
this
The
personal
name
Coggles
us-
to
suppose
that
by
wliich
is
Danish
iorrc
origin.
Possibly,
too,
With
call
may
mean
and is
RECORDS OF
name
describes
the
situation.
unprepared
to
find
a
further interesting
final
r
in
compounds,
e.g.
ha-bjarg,
high
rock
RECORDS OF
Shetland
and
the
Bureth,
Burreth,
more
likely
Burreth
than
verge
of
the
Cliff
range
century.
From
her
wantonness
of
gradually
rising
to
it
probably
first
received
from
the
Danes,
when
they
used
(see
^Captain
Thomas,
Hebrides).
other,
it
is
that this
on the look
Hill. There
Charnock
^s
a
provincialism,
see
Glossary.
which
is
probably
a
modi-
fied
form
ing
valleys.
RECORDS OF
name to
RECORDS OF
that
they
are
using
a
term
we
find
Gateburton,
which
in
a
mound,
is
still
more
to
the
purpose
occupied
by
the
parishes
of
Bicker,^
has
left
British
rivers,
gathered
from
ancient
Norse
literature,
given
on
terminationyft'/ indicating that
won be policy,
Winteringham,
called
Flashmire,
pagan
of
harbour
or
in
Cleveland
in
Yorkshire,
is
situation
of
the
village
in
former
times
was
rack
sense
o^
rack
is
to
extend,
stretch
out,
and
mentioned
and
skitter
see
RECORDS OF
RECORDS OF
(The neighbouring
for
necessarily
connect
itself
with
the
obsolete
in
Shake-
speare's'time
RECORDS OF
the
dales
of
North
East
Yorkshire
being
probably
its
last
stronghold.^
In
plenty
of
red
deere
that
haunt
the
Fennes
and
the
great
abounded
and
was
called
as Aslacoe,
forth
To
wanton
in
carnage
and
wallow
in
gore
extinction
of
RECORDS OF
first
hereabouts.
of the Witham,
from
the
city
above,
use,
;
it
is
Thunnack,
whether
we
cannot
be
because
the
prefix
preserves
the
is
a
record
of
Thus, then,
Haverland,
mentioned
as
a
part
of
in England,
sir? JohnsoJi.
a
part
of,
possibly
identical
with,
'

Ponton
to
conjecture
that
the
structure
in
rehgious
monument
that
has
probably
long
since
crumbled
to
dust
personal
of Legboume Abbey,
ago,
but,
in
untuneful
note,
which
no
one
name
survives,
a
filled this chapter
CHAPTER XIII.
many dialectical
varieties, could
sixth
century,^
formed,
THE LANGUAGE
very
large
Anglian
to
important
modifi-
cations,
by
altering,
1882,
speaking
descendants
in
Denmark.
The
farm
lads
will
talk
to
you
of
the
cletch^^
of
chickens
by
the
THE LANGUAGE
Norse
original
than
that
to
the
it
here
maintained.
across
such
names
as
Stackgarth,
Yarlesgate,
Bratlands
may
Old
Norse
with,
and
still a name
language
of
Lincolnshire,
Scandinavian element
compare
with
Danish
biigne,
to
bend
or
bulge
{de
bugnende
THE LANGUAGE
know,^
survives
eventful page
portant and permanent consequences
an
interest
they
life,
of Christ
of
the
Anglo-
Scandinavia,
which
had
hitherto
resisted
the
advance
of
a season
old
and
is
ready
to
perish,
the
birth-pangs
of
a
nobler
and
I eel. as
the
Claxbys
is
known
as
Claxby
would
maintain.
In
certainly
introduced
by
the
of
Grestein,
from
the
uncomplimentary
nickname
Keis
kcyptr,
and
is
286 LINCOLNSHIRE
the
present
day.
a
moor
A.S.
mor,
of
T.N.
;
common pers. name. There is a Refsta^ir in Landn.
Dan.
the
in
:
enters
into
many
names,
as
Asvaldr,
Rognvaldr,
sometimes
dropping
the
v,
an
original^,
and
that
the
name
make
Scotland.
Immanuel
Icel.
finny
tribe,
there
is
good
ground
for
supposing
it
to
be
of
Norse
introduc-
tion.
(See
Finnr,
.^/'/^^(jr.
The
name
TUTTY. Icel.
tnttr, tottt\
as
a
pers.
name
a common name
See
Grew,
Glossary.
Grayne,
I.N.
Haldene, D.B.
Odincarl,
been
adopted
in
the
following
Glossary.
Some
words
of
less
the
most
probable
A.S.
biim,
a
manger
(see
Skeat,
Etym.
Diet.),
and
cat
word
kampa,
to
devour
klccget
a cat,
for this
;
=
Gatherums.
In
the
NotiticT;
Ludae,
1834,
the
unnecessary
V>.
gauk,
gok,
A.S.
Norwegian
laws
in
the
same
sense
as
hag
in
Scotland,
viz.
moss
ground
used
having
a
similar
meaning.
See
also
helm,
shade
hcens,
Dan.
hons,
used
for
chickens
generically,
as
we
;

or in
his
way
Icel.
kengr,
a
bend),
(as
a
gate),
Parv.
Atkinson
(CI.
Gl.)
gives
O.N.
search.
LOFF
our English
Jam.).
The
si).
Ully-low,
Etym. Diet., also
Dan.
maal-iid,
meal
time.
Megger,
to
placed ; muck-suttle
Dan.
Near,
Near-fat =
fat
about
in
Denmark
as
well
as
in
paw
sense.
Peff,
purre,
blusterer
ran,
rap
Cf.
Icel.
saddr,
sated,
having
had
one's
fill
beat slightly,
to dress
Atkinson.
Sw.
sila,
to
strain
C.
identical
with
Scotch
skeer,
skeerie,
excited
look)
Icel.
sndpr,
ni%-stbng, for
cf.
stottcr,
stoitcr,
to
stagger
(Jam.).
Staver
of Icel.
storrj storr
;
;
perhaps
also
be
connected
with
the
Icelandic
words
blade
is
word.
Also
cf
tempted
to
connect
traffic,
to
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