Scandinavian-Britain

212 SCANDINAVIAN BRITAINand Kirkby Thore (Th6rir) ; Langley (Langlifs-ergh) ;Lazenby (farm of the leysingi or freedman) ; Mansergh(the slave's shieling); Melkinthorpe and Melmerby(from the Irish Maelchon and Maelmor) ;Ninesergh(Ninian's, in the estates of the ancestors of Gospatric f.Orme) ;Oddendale (Audun's, not Odin's) ;Ormside(Orm's sseter); Ousby (about 1240 Ulvesby, Ulf s) ;Ravenstonedale (the dale of Hrafn's titn) ; Ramsey (asin Wales and the Isle of Man, etc., Hrafn's island) ;Renwick (about 1177 written Ravenswic) ;Rusland (inthe thirteenth century Rolesland, Hr61f s) ; Sizergh(anciently Sigarith-erge) ; Soulby (perhaps Solva-baer) ;Stephney and Stavenerge (West Cumberland, Stephen'sor Stefnir's; perhaps not Palnatdki's father-in-law,p. 1 86, and yet Cumbria too was Bretland) ;Swinside(near Flimby, Suanesete, temp. Henry II., the saeterof Svein) ;Thirlmere (perhaps Thorolfs) ;Thurstonwater,i.e. Coniston Lake (Turstini-watra in thetwelfth century, and douotless the property of aThorstein at some earlier date) ; Thorpinsty, Cartmeland Torpenhow, Cumb. (Thorfinn's tetgr and haugr) ;Uckmanby, perhaps from Ogmund); Ullswater(Ulfs) ;Ulverston (Domesday', Ulvrestune, and notUlfs, but Ulfar's); Windermere (Hodgson Hinde'sguess that this was Symeon's Wonwaldremere, A.D.791, is quite unsupported; twelfth century Wynandermare,the lake of Wynand, perhaps Ve-anund). Allthese places seem to give the names of settlers, amongwhich one or two might be claimed as rather Danishthan Norse ; but, on the other hand, the Irish namesimply immigration from the west, or, at least, connexion