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PLACE-NAMES

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The spelling of place names in Anglo Saxon England was an uncertain business, with no consistency and no agreement even about the name itself. Thus London was variously rendered as Lundonia, Lundenberg, Lundenne, Lundene, Lundenwic, Lundenceaster and Lundres. Doubtless some readers will prefer other versions of the names listed below, but I have usually employed whichever spelling is cited in either the Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names or the Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names for the years nearest or contained within Alfred’s reign, AD 871–899, but even that solution is not foolproof. Hayling Island, in 956, was written as both Heilincigae and Hæglingaiggæ. Nor have I been consistent myself; I should spell England as Englaland, and have preferred the modern form Northumbria to Norðhymbralond to avoid the suggestion that the boundaries of the ancient kingdom coincide with those of the modern county. So this list, like the spellings themselves, is capricious.

Æthelingæg Athelney, Somerset
Alclyt Bishop Auckland, County Durham
Baðum (pronounced Bathum) Bath, Avon
Bebbanburg Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland
Berrocscire Berkshire
Cair Ligualid Carlisle, Cumbria
Cetreht Catterick, Yorkshire
Cippanhamm Chippenham, Wiltshire
Contwaraburg Canterbury, Kent
Cumbraland Cumbria
Cuncacester Chester-le-Street, County Durham
Cynuit Cynuit Hillfort, nr Cannington, Somerset
Defnascir Devonshire
Dornwaraceaster Dorchester, Dorset
Dunholm Durham, County Durham
Dyflin Dublin, Eire
Eoferwic York
Ethandun Edington, Wiltshire
Exanceaster Exeter, Devon
Fifhidan Fyfield, Wiltshire
Gleawecestre Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Gyruum Jarrow, County Durham
Hamptonscir Hampshire
Haithabu Hedeby, trading town in southern Denmark
Heagostealdes Hexham, Northumberland
Hedene River Eden, Cumbria
Hocchale Houghall, County Durham
Horn Hofn, Iceland
Hreapandune Repton, Derbyshire
Kenet River Kennet
Lindisfarena Lindisfarne (Holy Island), Northumberland
Lundene London
Onhripum Ripon, Yorkshire
Pedredan River Parrett
Readingum Reading, Berkshire
Scireburnan Sherborne, Dorset
Snotengaham Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Strath Clota Strathclyde
Sumorsæte Somerset
Suth Seaxa Sussex (South Saxons)
Synningthwait Swinithwaite, Yorkshire
Temes River Thames
Thornsæta Dorset
Thresk Thirsk, Yorkshire
Tine River Tyne
Tuede River Tweed
Wiire River Wear
Wiltun Wilton, Wiltshire
Wiltunscir Wiltshire
Wintanceaster Winchester, Hampshire
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