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At the same time there are plentiful traces of
Danish occupation, even in Cambridgeshire. The
parish names of Toftes and Quoy (Coeia in Domesday
= Kví, = quey or quoy in Orkney and Shetland, a
fold, used in Kvíá and Kvíabekkr in Iceland) ; Burwell
Nest or Ness, a point of land reaching out into the
fens ; Denney, here perhaps representing Dana-ey, the
Danes’ island in the fens ; Duxford or Dokesworth,
from Toki, a Dane ; "Daneland towards Holgate
weye," mentioned temp. Edward III. as in Haslingfield ;
the Danes’ Bottom—compare the common
use of botn in Iceland, in Cumberland and in
Cleveland for the head of a valley (as opposed to its
ordinary English use for the basin of a valley),—these
names are given by Mr. Hailstone in a paper read to
the Viking Club (Saga-book, iv., pp. 108-126). He
mentions also that certain lands are noted in Domesday
as paying two ores as toll, showing that the
Scandinavian money-system still obtained there ; that
the priest Herolf, a Scandinavian name, was appointed
by Æthelstan head of the monastic house at Biggin
Abbey ; that under Eadward the Confessor one
"Turcus" (Thorgest ?) held land in Reach and Burwell
under Ramsey Abbey ; and that in Ditton Camoys,
Westley and Sixmile Bottom a six-hide reckoning
prevailed. Later, though these Scandinavian owners
may have come in with Knút, we find mentioned in
Domesday Anschetil, Thurstan, Tochi, Torchil and
Turkell ; in the Inquisitio Eliensis Grim, Omund,
Osketil, Oslac and Simund ; and in Feet of Fines, Aki,
as holding lands in the county of Cambridge.
The Danes of East Anglia, however, seem to have
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