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Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 304-306

  Hough, Carole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0007178415     PISSN: 00293970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nq/44.3.304-b     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. A. H. Smith, English Place-Name Elements, 2 vols, EPNS 25-6 (Cambridge, 1956). II, 12, s.v. laf.
2. A. Mawer and F. M. Stenton, The Place-Names of Buckinghamshire, EPNS 2 (Cambridge, 1925), 186-7.
3. M. T. Löfvenberg. review of English Place-Name Elements, English Studies, xliii (1962), 36-47,
4. al 40. Smith's citation appear to derive from a footnote in The Place-Names of Buckinghamshire (187), itself taken from Ekwall
5. M. Gelling, The Place-Names of Oxfordshire, 2 vols, EPNS 23-4 (Cambridge, 1953-4), I, 146. Recorded spelling of the place-name cited here are la Papelaue c. 1210 (carry thirteenth), la Papelafe c 1190, c 1199 (early thirteenth).
6. No relevant studies are cited in the mort recent and comprehensive place-name bibliography, J. Spittal and J. Field, A Reader's Guide to the Place-Names of the United Kingdom (Stamford, 1990), which covers publications between 1920 and 1989.
7. O. Fellows-Jensen, The light thrown by the early place-names of Southern Scandinavia and England on population movement in the Migration Period', in Nordwestgermanisch, ed. E. Marold and C Zimmermann (Berlin, 1995), 57-75, at 61.
8. Mawer and Stenton, The Place-Names of Buckinghamshire, 186.
9. A detailed examination of the Scandinavian place-names in -ley is B. Sendergaard, Indledende Studier over den Nordiske Stednametype Lev (Löv), Navnestudier 10 (Copenhagen, 1972).
10. W. F. H. Nicolaisen, 'Is there a Northwest Germanic toponymy? Some thoughts and a proposal', in Nordwestger-manisch, ed. E. Marold and C Zimmermann (Berlin, 1995), 103-14, at 111.