biarmer

Updated: May 21, 2025

Before, however, we came to the station, I decided that both names were right enough, but that Bromwicham was the original name; signifying the home on the broomie moor, which name it lost in polite parlance for Birmingham, or the home of the son of Biarmer, when a certain man of Danish blood, called Biarming, or the son of Biarmer, got possession of it, whether by force, fraud, or marriage the latter, by-the-bye, is by far the best way of getting possession of an estate this deponent neither knoweth nor careth.

George Henry Borrow - Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery