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... Icel , gjá or ' goe , ' a chasm , which the Gael has made into Geodha . In Colonsay there is a Rudha Gheadha or ' red cleft , ' where the old Norse a is still preserved , The word firth or frith , the Icel . fjörðr , and N , fjord , is ...
... Icel , gjá or ' goe , ' a chasm , which the Gael has made into Geodha . In Colonsay there is a Rudha Gheadha or ' red cleft , ' where the old Norse a is still preserved , The word firth or frith , the Icel . fjörðr , and N , fjord , is ...
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... ( Icel . garð - r ) and to dale ( Icel . , & c . , dal ) we have already referred ( p . liv ) ; examples of the latter are easily found , as in BERRIEDALE and HELMSDALE ; occasionally it is suffixed to some Celtic word , as in ATTADALE ...
... ( Icel . garð - r ) and to dale ( Icel . , & c . , dal ) we have already referred ( p . liv ) ; examples of the latter are easily found , as in BERRIEDALE and HELMSDALE ; occasionally it is suffixed to some Celtic word , as in ATTADALE ...
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... Icel . hólm - r , an island , also a meadow near river or sea . ' Those in the far north , like Hor itself , one of the Orkneys , and like GLOCPHOLM , are without doubt , Norse ; while those in the south , like BRANXHOLM and MIDHOLM ...
... Icel . hólm - r , an island , also a meadow near river or sea . ' Those in the far north , like Hor itself , one of the Orkneys , and like GLOCPHOLM , are without doubt , Norse ; while those in the south , like BRANXHOLM and MIDHOLM ...
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... Icel . vö - r , ' a little bay or inlet , ' is common in the far north , as in AITHSVOE and CULLIVOE , Shetland : -goe , Icel . gjá , already referred to ( p . lxiii ) , is of similar meaning , literally it is ' a cleft or gap , ' as in ...
... Icel . vö - r , ' a little bay or inlet , ' is common in the far north , as in AITHSVOE and CULLIVOE , Shetland : -goe , Icel . gjá , already referred to ( p . lxiii ) , is of similar meaning , literally it is ' a cleft or gap , ' as in ...
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... Icel , hvarf and Sw . harf , the same word as our Eng . wharf . And that far northern isle in Shetland , YELL , seems to bear a very startling Lame . But Yell is the ON . Jali , Icel guild or gul , which means Landg more than barren as ...
... Icel , hvarf and Sw . harf , the same word as our Eng . wharf . And that far northern isle in Shetland , YELL , seems to bear a very startling Lame . But Yell is the ON . Jali , Icel guild or gul , which means Landg more than barren as ...
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Aberdeen Aberdeensh Adamnan Argyle Arran aspiration Ayrsh Banff Beauly Berwick Berwicksh Brythonic burn cairn Caithness called cape CASTLE ceann Celt Celtic century charter Chron Church of St cognate coille Columba common Eng confluence corruption Crieff dale Deer dimin dubh Dumfries dùn Dunfermline Durham Edinburgh enclosure England English Falkirk farm field Fife ford Forfar frith Gael Gaelic GALASHIELS Galloway Glasgow glen Haddington Hawick height hill hollow hybrid Icel Inverness Iona Ireland Irish island Islay isle Kinross Kintyre Kirkcudbright Lanark land Lewis Loch Lochmaddy Lomond lxxii meadow means monadh mòr Mull Nennius ness Norse old G old name Orkney parish Peebles Perh Perth Perthsh Pict Pictish place-names plain plural pool Possibly Prob pron river rock Ross-sh Sagas Scotland Scots Scottish Shetland shieling Skene Skye spelt Stirling Strath stream suffix Sutherland syllable valley village Wigtown wood word
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Page 304 - By-ways of History : Studies in the Social Life and Rural Economy of the Olden Time. By JAMES COLVILLK, MA, D.Sc., Examiner in History, University of Glasgow:.
Page 303 - Dasent's Popular Tales from the None may claim to rank as a classic. One of the most capable, earnest, and scholarly disciples of the Grimms, Sir George contributed greatly to the knowledge of comparative mythology and folklore, and besides doing much to popularise a branch of knowledge at that time confined to the specialist, gave us a book of stories which has been a perpetual delight to manhood and to youth.
Page vii - The study of place-names may be said to stand to history and ethnology in somewhat the same relation as the study of fossils stands to geology. Each group or set of fossils represents, with more or less strictness, a distinct age of geologic time as, roughly speaking, does each group of place names represent a period of historic or prehistoric...
Page xii - ... open a limestone nodule and finds therein a magnificent Productus, every curve and line of the shell perfect, is hardly greater than the satisfaction of the historical philologist when he first discovers that a puzzling and prosaic name like Carstairs originally was ' Casteltarres
Page xcii - Kylosberu, though already in 1278 it has donned its present guise. The early form shows that here we have another of the superabundant Celtic kils ; only this was the ' cell ' or 'church' of a Norse saint; for Osborne is the N. Asen-bjorn, ' the bear of the Asen ' or
Page 291 - Celtic overlays or modern substitutions, and of these remains the work offers little information. Even where explanations of Norse or Anglian names are attempted, the results are in many cases singularly lame. Two instances, taken at random, may be cited : — " WANLOCK WATER and WANLOCKHEAD (Sanquhar). Can this mean ' stream like a woman's ringlet,' or ' curl
Page xcvi - the first name in all the Scottish Calendar, and presumably the first bringer of Christianity to Scotland, was St. Ninian of Withorn, born 360 AD ; his name also appears as Ringan and Rinan. Ground Plan, Church of St. Ninian, Sanda Island. He is commemorated in twenty-five churches or chapels, extending from Ultima Thule to the Mull of Galloway.
Page 163 - Groat to prevent dissensions as to precedence among the eight different branches of his family. Whatever the origin of the legend, which resembles that of the Round Table, it is certain that between 1496 and 1525 there was one ' John o' Grot of Duncansbay, baillie to the Earl in those pairts,
Page xii - Casteltarres ' (sic c. 1170), Terras being a familiar Scotch surname to this day. Even yet all will not be well unless the student also knows that the oldest usage of the word ' castle ' in English was as a translation of the Vulgate's castellum, where castellum means always...