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The Old Norse place name Vígríðr means "battle-surge" or "place on which battle surges". [1] The name Vígríðr is sometimes modernly anglicized as Vigrid , Vigrith , [ 2 ] or Wigrid . [ 3 ] The etymology of the name Óskópnir is a matter of scholarly debate, but has been proposed as meaning "the (not yet) created", "not made" or "mismade".
Caldbeck cottages, home of the huntsman John Peel. Caldbeck was a stopping place for travellers to whom the monks provided hospitality. Headstone of John Peel in the churchyard of St Kentigern's Church, Caldbeck, Wigton, Cumbria, UK. Peel was born at Park End, near Caldbeck, Cumberland; his family moved a short time after to the Greenrigg farm. [1]
The Namoi River rises on the western slopes of the Moonbi Range and Great Dividing Range, near Niangala, at the convergence of the Macdonald River and Boundary Creek, and flows generally west, joined by twenty-seven tributaries, including the Peel, Manilla and Mooki rivers, before reaching its confluence with the Barwon River, near Walgett.
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A fictional suburb set on the Main Line region of Pennsylvania, where most of the series takes place Rummidge, England David Lodge: Changing Places and others S ; Sac Prairie: August Derleth: Various works St. Johns, England Ken Follett: Kingsbridge-series: St. Johns is a village in South West England. St. Loo, England Agatha Christie: Several ...
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Völuspá (37) mentions "a hall of gods, of the lineage of Sindri" [2] located northward, in Niðavellir.There are several reasons to think that Sindri is a dwarf: [3] his name is related with forging and the hall is made of gold (dwarves are said to be skillful smiths), the location of the hall is Niðavellir, which possibly means "dark fields" (dwarves live away from the sunlight).
The fictional native language of Sodor is "Sudric" or "Sudrian", a Goidelic language similar to Manx. [3]Many of the place names are based on Manx words, but often conforming to English word order, e.g. Killdane, which comes from "Keeill-y-Deighan" (Church of the Devil), [4] and the hills, called Knock and Cronk.