chirn

Updated: May 24, 2025

A few years later, the Chronicle gives it as Cirn ceaster; and since the river is called Chirn, this is the form it might fairly have been expected to retain, as in the case of Cerney close by. At that point the spelling of the western town has stopped short, but the tongues of the natives have run on till nothing now remains but Cisseter.

Grant Allen - Science in Arcady