Scandinavian-Britain

EAST ANGLIA 107At the same time there are plentiful traces ofDanish occupation, even in Cambridgeshire. Theparish names of Toftes and Quoy (Coeia in Domesday= Kvi,= quey or quoy in Orkney and Shetland, afold, used in Kvia and Kvfabekkr in Iceland) ;BurwellNest or Ness, a point of land reaching out into thefens ; Denney, here perhaps representing Dana-ey^ theDanes' island in the fens ;Duxford or Dokesworth,from Toki, a Dane ;" Daneland towards Holgateweye," mentioned temp. Edward III. as in Haslingfield;the Danes' Bottom compare the commonuse of botn in Iceland, in Cumberland and inCleveland for the head of a valley (as opposed to itsordinary English use for the basin of a valley), thesenames are given by Mr. Hailstone in a paper read tothe Viking Club (Saga-book, iv., pp. 108-126). Hementions also that certain lands are noted in Domesdayas paying two ores as toll, showing that theScandinavian money-system still obtained there that;the priest Herolf, a Scandinavian name, was appointedby /Ethel stan head of the monastic house at BigginAbbey ;that under Eadward the Confessor one" Turcus"(Thorgest ?)held land in Reach and Burwellunder Ramsey Abbey ;and that in Ditton Camoys,Westley and Sixmile Bottom a six-hide reckoningprevailed. Later, though these Scandinavian ownersmay have come in with Kniit, we find mentioned inDomesday Anschetil, Thurstan, Tochi, Torchil andTurkell ;in the Inquisitio Eliensis Grim, Omund,Osketil, Oslac and Simund ;and in Feet of Fines', Aki,as holding lands in the county of Cambridge.The Danes of East Anglia, however, seem tohave