The earliest old English place-names in Scotland

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Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 148-150

  Hough, Carole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1093/nq/44.2.148     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. W. F. H. Nicolaisen, Scottish Place-Names: Their Study and Significance (London, 1976), 68.
2. Forty-three place-names referring to Anglo-Saxon paganism are identified by M. Gelling, 'Further thoughts on pagan place-names', in Otium el Negotium: Studies in Onomatology and Library Science Presented to Olof von Feilitzen, ed. F. Sandgren (Stockholm, 1973), 109-28;
3. reprinted in Place-Name Evidence for the Anglo-Saxon Invasion and Scandinavian Settlements, ed. K. Cameron (Nottingham, 1975), 99-114.
4. More recently, Thurstable in Essex has been deleted from the canon (L. J. Bronnenkant, 'Thurstable revisited', Journal of the English Place-Same Society, xv (1982-3), 9-19),
5. while Friden in Derbyshire, Harrow in Merseyside, and a lost Thureslege in the old county of Rutland, have been added (N. Brooke, M. Gelling and D. Johnson, 'A new charter of King Edgar', Anglo-Saxon England, xiii (1984), 137-55;
6. P. Vipond, 'Harrow fields in Heswall-cum-Oldfield', Journal of the English Place-Name Society, xxv (1991-2), 9-11;
7. B. Cox, The Place-Names of Rutland, EPNS 67/69 (Nottingham, 1994), lii-liii, 174-6).
8. Nicolaisen, Scottish Place-Names, 71.
9. Gelling, 'Further thoughts on pagan place-names', 119.
10. The map is reprinted in M. Gelling, Signposts to the Past: Place-Names and the History of England, 2nd edn (Chichester, 1988), 160.
11. F. M. Stenton, 'The historical bearing of place-name studies: Anglo-Saxon heathenism', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 4th series xxiii (1941), 1-24;
12. reprinted in Preparatory to Anglo-Saxon England: Being the Collected Papers of Frank Merry Stenton, ed. D. M. Stenton (Oxford, 1970), 281-97;
13. K. Cameron, English Place Names, new edn (London, 1996), 119.
14. R. I. Page, 'Anglo-Saxon paganism: the evidence of Bede', in Pagans and Christians: the Interplay Between Christian Latin and Traditional Germanic Cultures in Early Medieval Europe, ed. T. Hofstra, L. A. J. R. Houwen, and A. A. MacDonald (Groningen, 1995), 99-129.
15. Cameron, English Place Names, 66.
16. Important work includes J. McN. Dodgson, 'The significance of the distribution of the English place-name in -ingas,-inga- in South-East England', Medieval Archaeology, x (1966), 1-29,
17. and B. Cox, 'The significance of the distribution of English place-names in-ham in the Midlands and East Anglia', Journal of the English Place-Name Society, v (1973), 15-73.
18. Both articles are reprinted in Place-Name Evidence for the Anglo-Saxon Invasion and Scandinavian Settlements, ed. K. Cameron, 27-54, 55-98.
19. All except Twynholm are discussed by Nicolaisen, Scottish Place-Names, 20-3. Twynholm was subsequently established as a-ham name in W. F. H. Nicolaisen, 'Bagimond's Roll as a toponymic text', in So Meny People Longages and Tonges: Philological Essays in Scots and Mediaeval English Presented to Angus Mcintosh, ed. M. Benskin and M. L Samuels (Edinburgh, 1981), 173-87.
20. I. A. Fraser, 'The Scottish border - an onomastic assessment', Nomina, VI (1982), 23-30, at 26, refers to "some fifteen' names in-h̄m in South-East Scotland, but cites selected examples only.