> It's not indexed in PN YWR 8.
But it is in PN YWR 1 page 207!
atte Vikerres 1379. Smith derives it from a postulated ON *vikir 'willow'.
The same page has an unconvincing derivation of Shude Hill from sceod 'pod'. I asked about Shude Hill in Manchester in April 2005 and nobody offered a theory or connected it to the Sheffield name. Could Shute Hill become Shude Hill?
Keith
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