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Book Reviews 2°3
settlements that will prove of greatest interest. There are not
very many Scandinavian names recorded in Part One. The
river Croco (p. 19) may well be identical with the Norwegian
Kr6kd but its forms are possibly corrupt. Somerford Booths
(p. 63) shows the addition of the Scandinavian loan-word bOth
"temporary hut on summer pasture". Birtles Hall (p. 100)
was originally called Hulme "water-meadow". The name
Kettleshulme contains the Scandinavian personal name Ketill,
which is not typically Danish as implied by Mr Dodgson, and hulm.
Cheadle Hulme (p. 247) is the hulm of Cheadle. There is also
a handful of minor names. A number of these are hybrids and
probably simply represent the employment of Scandinavian
loan-words or personal names by the English. Ormr is found in
three names (pp. 53, 171, 271) but as the surname Orme, derived
from the personal name, is still current in east Cheshire, the p.ns.
may rather contain the surname. Other Scandinavian personal
names to be found in the minor names are Gamall (p. 253), Grimr
(p. 317) and Arnkell (p. 133). Stenris(h)iche (p. 253) contains two
Scandinavian elements, steinn "stone" and hris "shrubland" ,
and one OE one, sic "watercourse". All the other minor names
with Scandinavian elements contain either bOth or holmrlbulm,
They are (i) Carlisboth 1287 (p. 53), Bothefeld C1300 (p. 66),
Tydenacbothes 1356 (p. 68), le Herlesbothe C1270 (p. 181), Bothes
C1220 (p. 213) and le Bothegrene 1403 (p. 215), and (ii) Hulmesbrok'
1349 (p. 34), Haselhulm 1285 (p. 53), Hengilhulm early 14th
century (p. 53), Hulmes 1503 (p. 53), the holmes c1494, the hulmes
16II (p. 133), Ie Holmelegb 1347 (p. 171), The Hulme 16II (p. 179),
Assheinholmes 1453 (p. 192) and Bolyn Holme 1437 (p. 225). It
will be noticed that bOth must represent Old Danish both, for the
West Scandinavian form is bu(} and the element always appears
with 0 spellings in Macclesfield hundred. This may only be
because the comparatively young names we are concerned with
here all contain the word in the form in which it was adopted into
ME but it may indicate that the Scandinavian settlers in east
Cheshire were predominantly Danish. It will be interesting to
see whether forms with u occur in west Cheshire.
The variation between holm and hulm is a more difficult problem.
It is to be hoped that we shall not have to wait too long for a full
treatment of it in Mr Dodgson's Introduction. He will be able
to discuss it in the light not only of forms from the whole of
Cheshire but also of all the forms from the other counties for
which the EPNS has collections of material. Here I shall do no
more than give a brief summary of the state of our knowledge at
the present time. Two questions must be answered. What is the