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Maeshowe

Maes Howe

caergog C
caergog Jul 31, 2001 22:06:15
Replying to fitzcoraldo

hi, thanks that sounds interesting i'm getting carried away but it could give two implications 1, that the vikings named it when they came over or 2 the original people came from that area or were influenced by nordic language as well as celtic or maybe that long ago the language was pretty similar sharing a common root and hadn't evolved much who knows i'm surmising!
love caroline

F fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo Aug 1, 2001 22:35:39
Replying to caergog

the north yorkshire moors are covered in howes (3000 last count), most of which are burial mounds we even have a couple of villages named after howes e.g. Carlin Howe.
According to Richard Blakeborough, who made a great study of Yorkshire dialect, our dialect is a combination of anglo saxon and scandanavian (old norse, fresian, swedish and danish).
More info will follow
Fitz

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