At 12:27 12/03/2013, Linda Corrigan wrote:
>Hello Keith,
>There is an example from the north in Walney off Barrow in
>Furness: Wagneia, 1127, 1127-33, Early Lancashire Charters
>(Farrer), 1190 Furness Coucher Book.
>Derived by Ekwall (The Place-Names of Lancashire) from ON vogn
>'grampus, orca gladiator' a type of whale. The derivation is assumed
>to be from the shape of the island, looking like a whale in the sea
>but also because such whales were seen (and still are occasionally)
>in the Morecambe Bay and Irish Sea area.
Could there have been a memorable stranding there?
Trevor
Trevor Ogden
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
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