From: Benedict Adamson (badamson@lhr-sys.dhl.com)
Date: Mon 25 Sep 2000 - 15:28:50 EEST
> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 02:06:40 +0100 (BST)
> From: Alex Ferguson <abf@cs.ucc.ie>
> Subject: Re: steads to hamlets
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> I even rather like the term 'burie' (bury?),
Correct, buries being the plural of bury.
> though it doesn't sound
> remotely cod-Norse enough to be Completely Correct. ;-)
Well, it's the [New] English form of the Old English word (as in,
Canterbury). The original Englisc would have a 'g' instead of a 'y'
(burig, I think). I didn't see the need to be that cod-Germanic. Your
codness may vary.
- -..
> The Celt in me pictures something like a large broch,
> or a ring-fort, but perhaps simply a wooden palisade is more likely.
I have in mind something rather puny -- they are primarily
settlements rather than military structures. Wooden palisades are
out, as there isn't enough timber in their tula. A dry stone wall and
ditch. Also, somewhat haphazard and irregular.
>
> Incidentally, where exactly is said tula located, IYG?
At the northernmost tip of the Stormwalk mountains.
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