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One of the most noticeable differences between The Danelaw and the rest of England is that it contains many hundreds of place-names which are Scandinavian in origin . Most English place-names are made up of two elements (though some are three or more). In a two-element name, we call the first part the 'prefix' and the second part the 'suffix'.
Place-names in The Danelaw
On the first of our weekly podcasts we have Peter Snow discussing the merits of the Duke of Wellington and Sarah Foot who explains why Alfred the Great’s legacy towers over his grandson Æthelstan’s. We’d really like to hear more from you on a regular basis so we’ve set up an email address podcast@historyextra.com where you can email in your thoughts on the podcast. Alternatively we’ve set up a voicemail number that you can call to leave your thoughts. The number is a UK number 0117 230 2002. UK land line callers will pay local rate – on BT this is 7.6p min day time, 1.0p min evenings, Free on weekends.
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Dan Carlin It's a hard recipe to master, but when passion and reason are finely blended the results can be unpredictable and intoxicating. They can also be maddening. This is part of the attraction of Dan Carlin. Original and outside-the-box thinking on current events and history to be sure, but could he also be woefully out of step with conventional wisdom? He talks fast, he's loud, he's a deep thinker who adores history and who will challenge your view of the world, while he does the same thing to himself.
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The subject of English placenames is a complicated one. There are many factors involved, not the least of which is the waves of conquest England suffered during the period in which most of her placenames were formed. The result is that English placenames come from a variety of languages: possibly preBritish, British, Latin, Old English, Old Norse of two varieties and Norman French. Each of these languages has contributed placenames and influenced the form of existing placenames.
History of English Place-Names
Update: OK, wow, passing along the recommendation for 1421: The Year China Discovered the World was a huge blunder. I have re-recorded the ad to correct the mistake. The embedded link reflects the newer version, so if you want to forget this grizzly business, just erase the episode you have and replace it with the one linked to above. The new ad script: "This week I initially passed along a listener recommendation for 1421: The Year China Discovered the World.
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A Medieval English Calendar
N.B. For some information on dating medieval documents in general, see the section on chronology and dating. This is a version of the Julian calendar, as used in England, covering the 11th to 16th centuries.
English Place Names
Perhaps the place-name 'Norwich' has always been associated with shopping or football in your mind, 'Newmarket' was where you visited your sick Aunt Maud as a child, and 'Exning' was where you stayed the night with friends. It has never occurred to you that the Norfolk and Suffolk place names actually mean something. However, the East Anglian place names didn't just happen because the first people to use them liked the sounds that the words made. Our ancestors chose the place names carefully to describe the people, the wildlife, or the countryside where they lived. Many place names are derived from the person or group of people who first settled in the area.Anglorum - Regia Anglorum - Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman and British Living History 850-1150AD
Regia Anglorum was a term used by early English writers to describe the English state. It means 'The Kingdoms of the English'. In a twentieth century context Regia Anglorum is a nationwide society with many independent local groups, from Scotland to the south coast, who all work within a tight set of common sense rules. Regia Anglorum attempts to recreate a cross section of English life around the turn of the first millennium. Our actual self imposed brief is AD950 - 1066, although our events may sometimes be set a few decades either side of these dates.
The Ancient Maya and their origins, page 1
It does seem evident that this cycle is accurate to some degree. It is interesting because the Mayans were also aware of the roughly 26,000 year tilt in the earths axis, is it possible that when the tilt reverses after 13,000 years and moves back towards its original position, completing the 26,000 year tilt that major earth changes occur??
Feminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames , by Talan Gwynek This dictionary, by P. H. Reaney, contains thousands of dated examples of full names.
