Driby

Driby, Lincolnshire

Driby, in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, is an Anglo-Scandinavian hybrid name from Old English dryge ‘dry, dried up’ and Old Norse bý ‘a farmstead, village’.

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Viking Names

Keywords

hybrid name, Lincolnshire, place-name

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Acknowledgements

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References

Kenneth Cameron, A Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place-Names. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society (1998), p. 39.