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(1908) [MARC] [MARC] Author: William Gershom Collingwood With: Frederick York Powell
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in the absence of written records, giving the area and
duration of these three Norse colonies between
Cambria and Cumbria.

3. Cumberland and Westmorland.

It is hardly possible to draw any boundary line
between the Viking areas round Morecambe Bay and
those of Cumbria. In ancient times the sands joined
opposite coasts of these great bays and estuaries;
where the ordinary map, coloured blue to high-water
mark, suggests deep sea : the mountains were the real
"scientific frontier," and thus it happened that the
south of the Lake District was naturally associated
with Lancaster and dissociated from Cumberland in a
manner which seems strange to one who knows
England only from the map. But the mountain
country seems to have been gradually filled up with
Norse farming-settlements, and though perhaps the
earliest Viking immigrants of Cumbria clustered together
on the west coast, forming a group like those
of Wirral, South Lancashire and Amounderness, and
possibly also Furness, yet it cannot have been long
before all the available lands were occupied. How
completely this was the case is seen in the place-names.
There are certain survivals of the Anglian
settlement which followed the Roman roads, coming
north and west from Manchester and Leeds to
Lancaster, and thence up the Lune and Kent and
across the sands to Furness ; also coming over

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