Scandinavian Settlement in the Territory of the Five Boroughs: The Place-name Evidence |
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abbr Aldwulf Alford Anglo-Saxon Appleby Barkby Boulder Clay certainly Chalk Chalky Boulder Clay Chronicle colonisation Danes Danes settled Danish army Danish settlement Danish settlers Danish-named sites Danish-named villages Derby Derbyshire district Domesday Book doubt earlier name early spellings east Eilert Ekwall Elsham English personal name English Place-Name Society example existing English villages F. M. Stenton fact farmstead Five Boroughs forms genitive Geological Drift Map Gravel spread Horkstow hypothesis immigrants Kenneth Cameron land large number Lawress Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Wolds Lindsey Melton Ross ment Mercia names of Scandinavian north-east Midlands Norwegians Nottinghamshire occupy Old English personal pattern of settlement places with names PN Nt prehistoric trackways presumably recorded in Domesday represent Roman roads Sand and Gravel Scandinavian Element Scandinavian name Scandinavian origin Scandinavian place-names Scandinavian word Scarp shire situated South Ferriby south-east Kesteven suggest take over existing territory Trent Ulceby valleys Vikings W. G. Hoskins wapentake