Scandinavian-Britain

CHESHIRE AND LANCASHIRE 199remark that many Norse-sounding place-names ofEast Lancashire may have been given to placessettled at a much later date than the colonies ofWirral and the Liverpool district.In Amounderness, the Agemundrenesseof Domesday^the land between Kibble and Morecambe Bay,we find a third Scandinavian colony, which hasgiven the name to the district Ogmundar-nes. It isunlikely that Ogmund was the Ingimund of 900, forthis territory was hardly within the gift of ^Ethelflaedof Mercia. The fact that at Heysham on MorecambeBay there is a " bear hogback " of the Yorkshire typedoes not prove, as might seem at first sight, that thecolony came from Danish Yorkshire by way ofCraven ;for this hogback must be of the very end ofthe tenth century, and if the gift of the district by^Ethelstan to St. Peter at York in 930 be genuine,the name must have been already in use. Indeed,when we remember that the rest of the seaboard ofLancashire was colonised early in that century,it isdifficult to believe that this one part remainedunoccupied. Here, again, Domesday gives us somedata. Of fifty-eight place-names only twenty appearto be distinctly Anglo-Saxon or otherwise earlier thanthe Viking invasion ; eight are distinctly Scandinavian,including two in -argli, meaning a Norse saeter and;the rest are possibly Scandinavian, though they mightbe interpreted as Anglian. In the neighbouringdistrict of Lonsdale about twelve Domesday placenamesseem to be Anglo-Saxon, eight Scandinavianand twenty-eight doubtful In Furness and South