The book Arran; - Cook Clan

O.-N. Stem. Modern Name. Ancient Spellings.
Enni = brow,
precipice.
£^i/ = island.
Fell = hill;
JJall = mountain.
Ormidale.
Scorrodale.
Craig-na-hannie
Pludda.
Goatfell.
APPENDIX D 371
1446-7 Ormysdill.
1450 Ormadill.
1690 Glennorma-
dell.
Blaeu, Sckoradel.
1649 Flada.
1685 Pladu.
1609 Ptadow.
Blaeu, Pladda.
Blaeu, Keadefelt
mi.
Derivation and Meaning.
Ormsdalr = 0vm'a glen
or Ormadalr = snake-glen
{Ormr, gen. Orms, a
well-known proper name,
really a nickname from
ormr, a snake). Cp.Ormsdah;
etc., in Iceland. As
the old spelling shows,
the second syllable does
not represent A, a river :
' snake-river-dale '
be ormsdrdalr.
would
Skorradalr = Skorri's
glen (Skorri, gen. Skorra,
a proper name). Cp.
Skorradalr, Skorradalshals,
and Skorradalsvatn.
The crag of the precipice.
Flat-ey - flat isle {fiatr,
fem. flat, neut. flatt =
flat).
name,
Flatey is a place-
with many compounds,
e.g. Flateyardalr
etc., in Iceland. It
appears again and again
among the Sudreyar or
Hebrides ;
Bladda, etc.
e.g. Fladda,
Geita-fell= gout hill or
Geita-fjall = goat mountain
{geit, gen. geitar,
gen. pi. geita ; freq. in
composition = goat). A
wild species of small
black goat still survives
in Arran, now chiefly
removed to Holy Isle.
There is a Geita-fjall in
Iceland ; also Geitav'ik,
Geitaskartt, etc. A few
miles east of Reykjavik
there is a place called
Geithals (pron. Gatehouse),
which is the
obvious prototype of
,