Interesting thoughts about the Old English dragon killing. I wonder if it's possible that Simund and Sigemund might be derivatives of an earlier Anglian/Norse archetype.
It's odd that Simonside has kept both an Anglian name and Anglian folklore. Entities very similar to the Duergar/Brown men also make an appearance in the tales of St Cuthbert, whom they tormented on his island hermitage. There's obviously a whole tangled skein of links between different times amd cultures going on in Northumbrian Folklore. But I can't wonder if the same Anglian/Scandinavian fellas who named Simundsette were aware of the prehistoric rock art nearby, and even if they were the same ones who saw fit to engrave comment on such things, not a million miles away at Lemmington Wood
DK, have you any ideas about the meaning of 'Lordenshaws'?
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14th April 2007ce
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Re: 'Duergar' is not Celtic but Germanic. (Dvergish_King)