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BOOK III.
ClIAV. II.
Tlnghoges in
England.
The Dublin
Thingmount
perhaps a
burial mound.
Conclusion.
198 THE SCANDINAVIANS, AND
amongst the Northmen in England, Gale in his
Histor}' of Suffolk states that the Hundred of
Thinghoge was so called from " the spot within its
limits where the placita for the whole jurisdiction
were held, Thinghoge," he adds, "signifying the
Hill of Council," being the artificial Mount near
which the Church of St. Edmundsbury had been
erected. 1
In the Domesday Book 2 and in Ely
Inquisition the name is spelled variously Tingoho,
Tingohan, and Thinghow, &c , the Saxon or Norman
scribes endeavouring to give a Latin form to the
Scandinavian word, but throughout we can trace
the derivation to the Tinghoge or Thingmount, this
mount at the Church of St. Edmundsbury, giving
the name of Tinghoge to the Hundred as the mount
near the Church of St. Andrew gave o the name of
to the district in which it stood.
Thengmotha
Nor is it improbable that the Thingmount of
Dublin also may have been a Tumulus from the
remains found close to it if not on the spot where it
stood.
On these details I fear I have dwelled too long,
and in the effort to compress within a moderate
space so many facts and statements connected with
the Scandinavian remains of Dublin, I may have
rendered the description of its monuments of the
Stein less clear than could have been wished, and
have omitted to refer to doubts and objections
which further statements would have removed. I
trust, however, that the novelty of the subject will
1
History and Antiquities of 4to, London, 1838.
Suffolk, Introduction, pp. ix., x.,
3 Ibid.