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Kolsteinn (p. 127), Frani or Frcendi (p. 133), Keikr (p. 151),
Sveinn (p. 156), Hdoaror (pp. 157, 323), Gunnhildr (p. 166),
Muli (p. 207), Hemmingr (p. 221), Ormr (p, 222), Sasi (p. 226),
Hakon (p. 232), Arnketill (p. 265), Halluaror (p. 315), Liulfr
(p. 320). The problematical township names Anderton (p. 95)
and Antrobus (p. 127) may possibly contain the personal name
Eindrioi, Other township names which do contain Scandinavian
elements are Knutsford (p. 73), Toft (p. 81, Tofte rath "the
curtilage"), Rostherne (p. 56), Croxton (p. 236), Arclid (p. 264),
and perhaps Moulton Hall (p. 207, Moletune DB, "Muli's tun" or
"mule farm"). For the suffix Dennis in Lach Dennis (p. 186,
Lece DB, Laehe Deneys 1260), Mr Dodgson makes the attractive
suggestion that it represents the Old English adjective denise
"Danish" and perhaps refers to the TRE tenant Colben,
Scandinavian appellatives found in field-names include slakki
(p. 80), eng (p. 8g), vra (p. 109), kvi stia (p. ISO), steinn (p. 151),
pveit (p. 154), garor (p. ISS), skdli (p. 165), b6ndi (p. 171), bd]
(p. 314).
All students of Scandinavian settlement in England, their
appetites whetted by these excellent volumes, will await the
publication of Mr Dodgson's remaining three volumes with
impatience and pleasurable anticipation.
GILLIAN FELLOWS JENSEN
STEN BRONS JARN. By MARTEN STENBERGER. Aldusserien 264.
Stockholm, Ig6g. 377 pp.
Professor Stenberger followed his excellent introduction to the
prehistory of his country, Sweden (lg62), with a major survey,
Det Forntida Sverige (lg64), which will for long remain a standard
work. With these books Professor Stenberger has set his own
very high standards against which his latest general work, Sten
Brons ] drn, must be judged. This is in fact an abbreviated
version of Det Forntida Sverige published in paperback with new
illustrations. It aims to provide a survey of developments in
Sweden from 12,000 B.C. to the end of the Viking period, with
occasional brief excursions into more general fields such as
Greenland and Vinland during the Viking period. It does not,
however, set out to place Sweden in a wider prehistoric context
- Sutton Hoo, for instance, achieves only a passing reference
in an account of gold sword mounts.
Apart from small plans of Valhagar, Valsgarde and Birka, the
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