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Cameron also records Warbreck as, "Scandinavian words also occasionally found include <i>brekka</i> "slope, hill", a term associated with Norwegian, as distinct from Danish, settlement in England. It has given, besides Breck, Norbreck and Norbrick "north", Warbreck "with a cairn or beacon"...* Note the use of 'with'.

* Kenneth Cameron. <b>English Place Names</b>. SBN 416 27990 2. pp178.