Scandinavian-Britain

MAN AND THE iSLtiS 239-Ortj. -ford, -art (fjord) ; -vag, -way, -vik, for bay; -ey(etiS), for isthmus ; -geo (gja"), for a cleft ;-oss (6ss),for a river's mouth ;-brok (borg), for a fort ; -vallar,-wall (vellir),field ;-bost (bustaSr), -bol, -poql^ (b61),-stul (perhaps st611 }a seat), -ary (ergh, as usedalso in Cumberland, Lancashire and Yorkshire, adairy-farm), for various kinds of farmsteads ;-vat(vatn), for lake ; -a, -ai (a), for a river ;strom (straumr),for a sea-current ;-skeir (sker), reef of rocks ; -nish,-ness and -mul (mtili),for a point of land j -gil,becomingin Uist -gir, for a dell. Adjectives used in placenamesare breidha and smuk (smugais in Icelandic anarrow hole, in Cumberland "smoot"is the sheep'sdoor in a fence-wall), for broad and narrow ;ha andlai (har and lagr), for high and low. Names of animalsin compounds are gaas (gas), so (sau^r, sheep), lam,calv, arne (6'rn, eagle), hest and ros. Sigurd, Bjorn,Grim and Eirik appear in the names of places inthese outer islands.In a paper for the Viking Club by Mr. R. L.Bremner (Saga-book, iii., p. 373) many details ofNorse place-names in the Southern Hebrides andArgyll are given, with the help of Professor Mackinnon." In the Lewis it has been calculated the place-namesare about four Norse to one Gaelic in ; Skye as threeto two ;in Barvas (N.W, of Lewis) as twenty-seven toone in ; Uig as thirty-five to four. In Islay there isone Norse to two Gaelic, in Kintyre one to four in;Arran and the Isle of Man one to eight. Jura has avery few." Professor Mackinnon derives Jura fromDyr-ey, " deer island," and dyr reappears in Ben