[NR] Results from the NORTHERN REGIONAL NAMING SURVEY

[Tadhg]

Greetings,

I should have known...revisionist English. 

They said it was Old Saxon for "fort on a sharp rock or hill"...they forgot all about Skarði.

Regards,
Tadhg
...brick by brick


--- On Mon, 6/6/11, Ulf <ulfie at cox.net> wrote:

> From: Ulf <ulfie at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [NR] Results from the NORTHERN REGIONAL NAMING SURVEY
> To: "Northern Region of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <northern at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Date: Monday, June 6, 2011, 5:17 PM
> On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 07:10 -0700,
> Tadhg wrote:
> > While they may sound similar, Skorragardr means about
> the same thing
> > as Scarborough...town on sharp rocks.
> 
> Actually, Tadgh, it means "Enclosed area of land with a
> rift in it".
> 
> What we send in, Skarrgarðr, was changed to Skorragarðr
> by Laurel to
> match extant naming practices of the time.  It's a
> shame because
> Skarrgarðr meant "noisy cattle-raiding melee field". 
> Which was kinda
> cool.
> 
> And Scarborough was originally known as Skarðaborg. That's
> because
> Thorgils Skarði founded that burg in the 10th century - It
> just means
> "Skarði's town".
> 
> Ulf
> 
> 
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