Viking origins of English (and Danish ) town names

Aparrently the "by" in Rugby and Corby have Viking origins.And also Brondby in Denmark too.

Rugby was originally "Roche" and the neighbouring district Brownsover before the Vikings invaded in 1000 and it became Rugby.The VIKINGS always named towns they had taken with the ending "by".Corby, and Brondby in Denmark being another.

The "by" at the end of the town name signifies "taken" by the Vikings apparently

Marvellous

Derby!

Selby?

Where's me coat?

Is there a SHEDBY?

The '-by' means 'homestead' or 'farm' - a lot of the place names like this in the East and Midlands are made up of a personal name + -by, signifying the original inhabitant of the place... It doesn't really mean that the place was 'taken' by Vikings, but that folks of Scandinavian descent settled there - not all 'Vikings' were (and are!)marauding nutters... My favourite is the village of Billockby near Gt Yarmouth...

Snorri xxx

SHED wrote: Is there a SHEDBY?

No, but there does seem to be a Shedville in Indiana...

Snorri xxx

ah well ,all's by the by

Spotnick wrote: I guess the french were less imaginative.

Montréal actually means "Mont Réal", and in old french "Réal" meant Royal... so it's Royal Mount, the name of the mountain in the middle of the city....

The people of upstate New York were even less imaginitive. Rochester is named after the dude that founded the city, Colonel Nathaniel Rochester. He does have the coolest grave site in the whole damn city, too!

And there's a Shedfield in Hampshire...

Snorri xxx

Blaby - near my old home town of Leicester (again the East Midlands)

As mentioned previously,Redcar was named by The Vikings and means "The Scars" after the treacherous Rocks visible at low tide,which must have claimed a few Longboats,like they have hundreds of sea going vessels down the years.. In Redcar we still call them The Scars.Westscar and Eastscar...Great for pulling crabs and lobsters from for us land lubbers mind I saved someones life on them there rocks,when we got in trouble with the tides once upon a time..The lad in question thinks I'm a real life hero,which is nice..But we both know it was my fault we were on there in the first place,cos I knew full well he was a shit swimmerStill,all's well that ends well!

I'm going to Copenhagen this weekend so I'll do some investigating