Chip shops

[Authentic]

We look down on the under dog especially if it’s a club from the Birmingham area.

Of course I can say Leicester city.

Its pronounced “Lester city”

Like Gloucester, Massachusetts is pronounced "Gloster".

[Neo]

Like Gloucester, Massachusetts is pronounced "Gloster".

Exactly!

Manceaster= Manchester Donceastre= Doncaster. Chester= ceastre

All were Roman fortified towns
Ceastre means just that.
Lots of English towns are old Roman fortified towns but spelt different.

You’d get the hang of it if you lived amongst us for 30-40 years

[Authentic]

Exactly!

Manceaster= Manchester Donceastre= Doncaster. Chester= ceastre

All were Roman fortified towns
Ceastre means just that.
Lots of English towns are old Roman fortified towns but spelt different.

You’d get the hang of it if you lived amongst us for 30-40 years

Hadrian's Wall.

England was a pension for many old Roman soldiers (Legionnaires).

[Well Bonded]

Over here Chip Shops are being set up to tag people who have been vaccinated.

[Neo]

I can just imagine it; the needle goes in and you suddenly decide to have a battered sausage and a tub of curry with your chips!

[UKSmartypants]

Exactly!

Manceaster= Manchester Donceastre= Doncaster. Chester= ceastre

All were Roman fortified towns
Ceastre means just that.
Lots of English towns are old Roman fortified towns but spelt different.

You’d get the hang of it if you lived amongst us for 30-40 years

Essentially, all english place names derive either from the Roman, Anglo Saxon, Norman or Danish words, eg



Netherbury, Dorset - from the Daneish 'neder' (down, lower) and burh (dative byrig) a norse word meaning 'Fortified place'. Similary 'Sudbury' is from the 8th century danish words for "Southern Fort"



Nettleham, Lincolnshire - 'the -ham is derived from the danish word for 'farm, homestead', Nettle is Old English, hence "the farm where the nettles grow"


A lot of place names have the name of the person or family who lived thier:



Syston, Leicester - first referred to in Domesday Book as Sitestone (1086), and in Ecumenical Court Rolls of 1201 as Sithestun. -ton is like -ham, from an earlier time, probably saxon, so the name is probably derived from the Saxon 'Sigehǣth' + 'ton' ie ‘farmstead of a man called Sigehǣth’.


Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. -burgh is dereived from the Norse word for 'stronghold' , hence Gainesburg (Domesday1086). ‘Stronghold of a man called Gegn’. - Old English personal name + burh.


Catterick in Yorkshire, was a major Roman Fort. In latin its 'Cataractonium' from the Latin word 'Cataracta' (from which we get 'cataract', ie waterfall), so it was 'the place of the waterfall'. Its possible its a misintrepretation of the Brittani tribe (pre roman) placename meaning "place with Battle Ramparts"

I could write pages on this subject....... ...

[jirqoadai]

erik bloodaxe was norse? no? and York was his capitol, no?

[UKSmartypants]

erik bloodaxe was norse? no? and York was his capitol, no?

England has had several capitals. Its complicated.

On 12 July 927, the various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were united by Æthelstan (r. 927–939) to form the Kingdom of England. In 1016, the kingdom became part of the North Sea Empire of Cnut the Great, a personal union between England, Denmark and Norway, and for a time the Capital transferred to Gainsborough - in fact it was probably Cnut that gave rise to the story of Canute (Cnut) trying to hold back the sea (the River Trent at that point is tidal). The Norman conquest of England in 1066 led to the transfer of the English capital city and chief royal residence from the Anglo-Saxon one at Winchester to Westminster, and the City of London quickly established itself as England's largest and principal commercial centre. Erik the Viking was one of the fiefdoms that Æthelstan defeated prior to 927 AD

Before that various Anglo Saxon Kings held capitals are various towns and cities across the land, including Lincoln, (which became the Roman Fortified Port Lindum Colonia) and to answer the question, the sagas of Erik Bloodaxe are long and manifold, and his connection with York as King of Northumbria is detailed here:

Eric Bloodaxe: History of York

[jirqoadai]

Michael Wood has done a masterfull detailed study of him. whats great about his story is everything ever told about him con-viking is backwards. theres no grayness. WolfStien never lied. everyone else did.

[UKSmartypants]

Theres considerable evidence the Vikings may have got as far as northern Canada at some stage, as the Phoenicians may have done, being the first nation to invent sea navigation.

If you follow the developments on Oak Island, its clear ther were many visitors from europe to the northern coasts of canada and eastern coasts of america long long before Columbus trocked over thiere. It wouldnt suprice me if the Vikinsg got as far as Oak Island at least once.


If anyone is intersted in talking about Oak Island we can start a thread... i read the same Readers Digest Article as the Lagina brothers, and at the same time, and was fired with the same fascinatiion. Until they made a TV series of it, it was a wonderful, obscure story almost no one had heard of.