But how many animal names have made it into the toponymic record?
Sticking to dogs for the moment, there is Carn Cafal in Nennius:
'When he hunted Trwch Trwyth Cafal, the warrior Arthur's hound,
impressed his footprint on the stone, and Arthur later brought together
the pile of stones, under the stone in which was his dog's footprint,
and it is called Carn Cafal. Men come and take the stone in their hands
for the space of a day and a night, and on the morrow it is found upon
the stone pile'.
Beddgelert doesn't count.
Jeremy Harte
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From: The English Place-Name List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
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Subject: Re: Animal-names (fwd) (fwd)
Dr Gwyneth Nair (University of the West of Scotland, and a native of
Shropshire) has asked me to forward the following cow name:
1595, will of Henry Holland of Stottesdon:
Also I give unto the said John my son one cowe called Myrydewe and five
sheep and one lamb.
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Jennifer Scherr
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University of Bristol Information Services
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