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Brisco (Byrcscaye, birk-skógr); Butterilket, in Eskdale
(Brotherulkil, twelfth century, perhaps brautar-hólls-kelda,
the spring at the hill on the Roman road ; or
-ölkelda, the "ale-spring," bubbling well); Catchedecam
is a corruption of the dialectic "cat-stee-camb,"
the ridge of the cat’s path, from stigi, like Stye-head ;
Claif (kleif); Cleator (Cletergh, the shieling near
rocks); Corby (Chorkeby in 1120, from korki, Gaelic
for oats, a word used in the Edda) ; Dillicar (dilkar,
small sheep-folds) ; Feet for a low-lying meadow, the
Icelandic fit, is common; Gascow (thirteenth century,
Garthscoh, garðs-skógr) ; Gatescarth (geits-skarð) ;
Grain, a tributary brook, is used like grein in Iceland :
Greta (grjótá, stony-river) ; Grisedale (grís-dalr, where
swine were fed) ; Hammer often represents the Icelandic
hamarr, a rock ; Haverthwaite, Haverbreck
(hafra-brekka, goats’-bank, it is doubtful if hafrar
was used for "oats" at the period of settlement);
Hellbeck and Hellgill (hella, slate, or hellir, cave) ;
Ireby and Ireleth (the Irishmen’s farm and hillside) ;
Kellet (Keldelith, fourteenth century, hillside of the
spring) ; Keswick, near Cardew, is in the Holme
Cultram Register Keldesik, the water-course (A.-S.
sic, Icelandic sík) of the well, which may explain
the name of the town on Derwentwater, though in
1292 it is written Keswyk, and may refer to the inlet
of the lake on which it stands. Near it, however, is
Lyzzick, the hlíð-sík, which seems analogous. This
name, like others, may have been brought from the
east of England by Danish settlers after the period of
the first immigration. The old inhabited site which
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