Viking Names
East Leake
East Leake in Rushcliffe Wapentake of Nottinghamshire, is a simplex name from Old Norse lœkr ‘brook’. East and West Leake are on the banks of a small stream which joins the Soar at Kingston.
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Viking Objects
Reproduction Baltic Glass Beads
This glass-bead set is based on originals from Ribe/Hedeby and the Baltic and were meant to be worn between oval brooches. Glass beads were a coveted item with some being imported from as far away as the Middle East. They were manufactured by specialised artisans who would heat various coloured glass rods over a furnace and melt the glass onto a metal stick to form different shaped beads.
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Viking Names
Saxby All Saints
Saxby All Saints, in the Yarborough Wapentake of Lincolnshire, probably takes its name from the Old Norse and Old Danish male personal name Saksi and the Old Norse element by ‘farmstead, village’. This personal name is very common throughout Lincolnshire and Norfolk. Alternatively, the first element of the place-name could be a Scandinavian gen. pl. form of an ethnonym: Old English S(e)axe, Old Norse Saksar ‘Saxons’. Thus the place-name would mean ‘Saxons’ farm/settlement’. The exact implications of such a name are not yet fully understood and are the subject of ongoing work by Dr Jayne Carroll of the Institute for Name-Studies, University of Nottingham. All Saints was affixed at a later date from the dedication of the church.
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Viking Names
Clipstone
Clipstone, in the Bassetlaw Wapentake of Nottinghamshire, is a hybrid name. The first element is the Old Norse male personal name Klyppr as in Clipston, Northamptonshire, and Clipston on the Wolds, Nottinghamshire. It is on record as Clip, the name of a tenth-century moneyer. The second element is Olclid English tun ‘ enclosure; a farmstead; a village; an estate’ and it is thus another hybrid name.
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Viking Names
Fosdyke
Fosdyke, in the Kirton Wapentake of Lincolnshire, comes from the Old Norse male personal name Fótr and Old Norse element dík ‘a ditch, a water-channel’. The same personal name occurs in other place-names in Lincolnshire: Foston and Fotherby as well as possibly in Foston, Derbyshire.
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Viking Objects
Stirrup-Strap Mount (LIN-D274D5)
This Anglo-Scandinavian cast copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount is decorated with zoomorphic ornamentation. It has been classified as a William Class A Type 6 mount.
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Viking Objects
Urnes-Style Mount (LIN-FA6943)
This copper-alloy mount features Urnes-style openwork decoration.
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Viking Names
Southorpe
Southorpe, in the Corringham Wapentake of Lincolnshire, is recorded in Domesday Book as a simplex name from Old Norse þorp ‘a secondary settlement, a dependent outlying farmstead or hamlet’. The prefix was added later to distinguish it from Northorpe.
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Viking Names
Walesby
Walesby, in the Bassetlaw Wapentake of Nottinghamshire, comes from the Old Norse male personal name and nickname Valr which denotes ‘hawk’ and the Old Norse element by ‘a farmstead, a village’.
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Viking Names
Frosthild
The postulated name Frosthildr may be an Anglo-Scandinavian formation as it is only attested in the minor place-name of Throstle Hill, West Yorkshire. It is an Old Norse compound formed from Frost- ‘frost’ and -hildr ‘battle’.
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Viking Names
Fulbeck
Fulbeck, in the Loveden Wapentake of Lincolnshire, is an Anglo-Scandinavian hybrid formed from Old English fūl ‘foul, dirty’ and Old Norse bekkr ‘stream, a beck’, which likely replaced Old English broc, ‘brook’ based on earlier forms of the place-name.