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In England, chiefly in the northern half of the kingdom, a very great number of Danish names appear and are still preserved in the geography of the country. In Mr. Worsaae's book there is a tabular view of 1,373 Danish and Norwegian names of places in England, and also a list of 100 Danish words, selected from the vulgar tongue, still in use among the people who dwell north of Watling Street.
We have here been obliged wholly to overlook Mr Worsaae's curious chapters about Ireland and the Isle of Man, and to give what we cannot but feel to be a very superficial view of the contents of his book generally; but our readers have seen enough to inspire them with an interest in it, and we trust that this will lead many of them to its entire perusal. By J. J. A. Worsaae, For.
THOMAS WRIGHT, F.S.A., The Celt, The Roman, and The Saxon, ed. 1861. Referred to at length in the Antiquity of Man, by Sir C. Lyell, who adopts M. Worsaae's classification. Mr.
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