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remark that many Norse-sounding place-names of
East Lancashire may have been given to places
settled at a much later date than the colonies of
Wirral and the Liverpool district.
In Amounderness, the Agemundrenesse of Domesday
the land between Kibble and Morecambe Bay,
we find a third Scandinavian colony, which has
given the name to the district—Ogmundar-nes. It is
unlikely that Ögmund was the Ingimund of 900, for
this territory was hardly within the gift of Æthelflaed
of Mercia. The fact that at Heysham on Morecambe
Bay there is a "bear hogback" of the Yorkshire type
does not prove, as might seem at first sight, that the
colony came from Danish Yorkshire by way of
Craven ; for this hogback must be of the very end of
the tenth century, and if the gift of the district by
Æthelstan to St. Peter at York in 930 be genuine,
the name must have been already in use. Indeed,
when we remember that the rest of the seaboard of
Lancashire was colonised early in that century, it is
difficult to believe that this one part remained
unoccupied. Here, again, Domesday gives us some
data. Of fifty-eight place-names only twenty appear
to be distinctly Anglo-Saxon or otherwise earlier than
the Viking invasion ; eight are distinctly Scandinavian,
including two in -argli, meaning a Norse sæter ;
and the rest are possibly Scandinavian, though they might
be interpreted as Anglian. In the neighbouring
district of Lonsdale about twelve Domesday place-names
seem to be Anglo-Saxon, eight Scandinavian
and twenty-eight doubtful In Furness and South
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