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    1. Kirol_reddit on

      It went right through Nottingham, half the market was danelaw and half the market saxon

    4. Danph85 on

      It seems strange to make it look like London is a mix, it seems to me that it’s much more Old English there. Just off the top of my head you’ve got:

      Hams – East Ham, West Ham, Dagenham, Twickenham, Mitcham, Fulham, Walthamstow, Tottenham, Streatham

      Fords – Watford, Romford, Illford, Stratford

      Tons – Clapton, Surbiton, Kingston, Edmonton

      I can’t really think of any Norse style, but I’m sure there will be some.

    5. Antonio-Quadrifoglio on

      Never quite understood how Wales seems to remain much less affected by Norseman threats / influence, whilst seemingly having more limited capacity than it’s surrounding Anglo Saxon and Irish neighbors, which saw plenty of those threats.

      Is it purely geography? Resources?

    6. BroSchrednei on

      Since when is thorp exclusively an Old Norse word? Thorp is just an old Germanic word for village and appears in Old English, Old Norse, Old German, etc.

    9. cai_85 on

      Odd that they kept Wales on the map for no reason but deleted Scotland. All in all it’s a very hand-wavy map, I’m almost sure that you could find examples going either way on the ‚wrong side‘ of the line they draw.

    14. Prasiatko on

      Any idea why the names used in Scotland’s Norse areas are different? -ay -wall being more common though by/bie is also common. 

    15. AntiqueSunset on

      Ironic to come from the University of Nottingham when Nottingham itself is a -ham on the Danelaw side.

    17. Over-Willingness-933 on

      There are plenty of Ham in the Danelaw area like Rotherham (near Sheffield). The Viking names only appeared in the North and East Midlands.

    18. Fendrinus on

      Rotherham and Bradford (edit: and Preston, to cover all 3 suffixes) are both in the Danelaw area.

      It’s more like Old English names are all over the place, but Old Norse names only appear in that area (which I thought didn’t reach Cumbria & Northumberland but I could be wrong).

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