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SCANDINAVIAN ANTIQUITIES OF DUBLIN. 195
which the Northmen had inhabited BOOK in.
Cn IL
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part of England
as Grenehoga in Norfolk and Stanhogia, the gift of
Canute to Edwin ;
and on the borders of the county
of Dublin we find a townland having on it a remark-
able mound or moat called Greenoge, the derivation
of Hoga and Haghia being from " hogue " or " hog,"
a hillock or mount, the Icelandic and Norwegian
" Hauge" (Hogge), a mound or Tumulus "
being in
this case the direct derivation, and St. Mary del
Hogges being really St. Mary's of the hogges or
Mount, close to which it stood.
Olaus Wormius tells us that the Scandinavians
distinguished three "
ages by the mode in which the
dead were treated. The first was the Roisold or
age of Burning. The second was the Hoighold or
age of tumuli, in which the body of the chieftain
with his arms and ornaments was placed under a
mount. And the third was the age of interment or
Christian burial. 1
Hence the name of Hogges so
frequent in all the settlements of the pagan Northmen.
Their descendants, the Anglo-Normans, in
whose records we first find the name of St. Mary
del Hogges, were not ignorant of its meaning. In
their own settlements, in the Channel Islands, the
name is given to such mounds of earth as "La
Hougue Hatenas " and " La Hougue Fongue," in
Guernsey, and in documents relating to La Hogue Le
in Normandy it is spelled " Le Hogges " 2
precisely
as we find it in their Latin documents relating to
1 Monumentorum Danicorum, quo apud Hogges
in Normannii
&c., p. 40. guerrsB nostrse Francue appli-
* Rex Thcsaurario, &c. : Quik cuimus &c. Close Roll 36' Edw.
dilectus et fidelis noster Ricardus III., m. 6. (Engl.), 22 November,
Damory nobiscum . . tempore A.D. 1362. The following is from
o 2