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COPENHAGEN.
Chap. NIL
(vulture), Grip, Grim (soot), Gamm (vulture), Griis
(pig), Greb (dungfork), Hø (hay), lis (ice), Kalf (calf),
Knæ (knee), Knat, Kud, Krum (crooked), Moth, Myg
(gnat), Muus (mouse), Myrk, Naes (nose), Neff, Neb,
Oxe (ox), Pee, Pig (spike), Prip, Quie (heifer), Pod
(root), Rud, Skaal (cup), Saxe (scissors), Skytte
(marksman), Slet (plain), Sot (sickness), Splid and Split (discord
and rent), Stud (bullock), Strud (end), Ran (robbery),
Snubbe (1388), Steak, Stick, Suur (sour), Svab, Sviin
(hog), Taa (toe)—excessively ancient and now
unhappily extinct. Fancy writing an elegy on the “last
of the Toes ”! *
The names of the great Norwegian families were just
as simple. I find enumerated among those of
Christian I.’s time Smør and Ost—butter and cheese.
Many of the earliest and most ancient Danish names
are common in England, and are in all probability of
Scandinavian origin: as they are all “ noble ” here, there
can be no affront in supposing so:—Achesen, Baad
(boat), Bagge, Basse (wild boar), Beck (streamlet),
Bing (bin), Biel, Budde (messenger), Bølle (Buller,
bilberry), Brand (fire), Brun (brown), Burns (1680),
Byg (buck), Bourke, Dene, Due (dove), Galt (boar),
Felden, Fleming (Olaf dictus, 1316, old record), Foxe
(1268), Franke, Hind, Heye (hay), Frost, Graa (gray),
Drage (dragon), Flint, Dyre (deer), Klerk, Keith (knot),
Kidd, Green, Haar (Hore), Hair, Hare (1333), Hoste
(cough), Jesson, Knap (button), Krabbe (crab), Krag
(crow), Lang (law), Lester, Moss, Munk, Myre (ant),
Orin (worm), Paak (Poke), Paris, Pike, Piper, Portman
* As so many of these names, and those of the following paragraph,
translate themselves, it is unnecessary to give their meaning.
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