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congregated into the towns, in Colchester, Bedford,
Huntingdon and Cambridge ; and though the ten
wards of Cambridge did not correspond with the
Scandinavian reckoning by six and twelve, the fact
that each of the wards was under a "lawman" points
to a prevalence of Danish tradition in the eleventh
century. The great colony of "byes" clusters round
Yarmouth, though there are two Wilbys, Colby and
Risby inland, and Kirby in Essex. Thwaite, near
Bungay, is a Scandinavian name of Norse type ; and
place-names ending in -hoe, -well, -wall (-vellir) and
-stead may be Danish. The word "staithe," common
along the east coast, represents the Icelandic stöð in
the sense of "harbour": and "carr," representing
Icel. kjarr, is used for land once covered with copse.
On the coast the names in -wich, -haven, and -ness or
Naze have a Northern origin : but though these traces
of Danish occupation can be found, especially on the
seaboard of the districts, they are by no means so
noticeable as in the rest of the Danelaw, where
Viking occupation was of longer endurance.
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