Thank you very much!
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 14:00:49 +0100, Gillian Fellows-Jensen <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>I don't think that Cameron or anyone else actually stated that the places
>with kirkjuby -names were located on better soils nut it is clear that
>almost all the places with kirkjuby-names have situations that in one way or
>another are favourable and this is presumably that all these places existed
>before the arrival of the Vikings and had become suitable sites for the
>erection of churches. I have mentioned this in connection with the names
>that I have discussed in my books on Yorkshire, the East Midlands and the
>North-West, as well as specifically in a paper held at the tenth Viking
>congress. This was printed in Proceedings of the Tenth Viking Congress,
>Larkollen, Norway, 1985, published in Oslo, 1987, , pp.295-307.
>Gillian Fellows-Jensen
>
>From: "Vladislav Alpatov" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 1:30 PM
>Subject: [EPNL] kirkju-by and soil
>
>
>Hello to all!
>Cameron discovered -by and other Scandinavian names corresponded with
>poorer soils than English names in Danelaw. I read somewhere that the only
>exception are kirkju-by names that are located on better soils, but I can't
>now
>remember where this is stated.
>Can anyone help with a reference?
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