Scandinavian-Britain

Thwaite,108 SCANDINAVIAN BRITAINcongregated into the towns, in Colchester, Bedford,Huntingdon and Cambridge ;and though the tenwards of Cambridge did not correspond with theScandinavian reckoning by six and twelve, the factthat each of the wards was under a lawman " ' 'pointsto a prevalence of Danish tradition in the eleventhcentury. The great colony of " byes " clusters roundYarmouth, though there are two Wilbys, Colby andRisby inland, and Kirby in Essex. near.Bungay, is a Scandinavian name of Norse type and;place-names ending in -hoe, -well, -wall and(-vellir)-stead may be Danish. The word "staithe," commonalong the east coast, represents the Icelandic sto*& inthe sense of "harbour": and "carr," representingIcel. kjarr, is used for land once covered with copse.On the coast the names in -wich, -haven, and -ness orNaze have a Northern origin but :though these tracesof Danish occupation can be found, especially on theseaboard of the districts, they are by no means sonoticeable as in the rest of the Danelaw, whereViking occupation was of longerendurance.3.THE FIVE BOROUGHS :Nottingham, Leicester, Derby, Stamford and Lincoln.When Halfdan's vikings, in 877, overran Merciafor the third time they left the south-western half ofit to Ceolwulf, who had been tributary king of thewhole since 874. Alfred gained this territory in 885