Outer Isles
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Doubtless our most valuable source of local evidence as to Norse occupation of these Islands is that of topography. Names which have long attached to any given district are like fossils dug out of the earth — evidence of an active life which once existed there. Unfortunately there is no work of any antiquity which deals with the topography of the Highlands with any sort of authority. We are dependent mainly upon charters which contain names of j)laces, and on fcfoars (or what in England ^vould ...be known as visitations) connected with succession to property, and often con- taining lists of place-names with their spelling as adopted at different periods. In these we find traces not only of Norse and Gaelic, but of some original language unknown, as well as of so-called Anglo- Saxon.
It is a commonplace to say that the topographical distribution of a language is not necessarily conter- minous with the spoken language. In Galloway, for (example, the spoken language is Scotch and the topo- gi-aphy (Jaclic.
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Doubtless our most valuable source of local evidence as to Norse occupation of these Islands is that of topography. Names which have long attached to any given district are like fossils dug out of the earth — evidence of an active life which once existed there. Unfortunately there is no work of any antiquity which deals with the topography of the Highlands with any sort of authority. We are dependent mainly upon charters which contain names of j)laces, and on fcfoars (or what in England ^vould ...be known as visitations) connected with succession to property, and often con- taining lists of place-names with their spelling as adopted at different periods. In these we find traces not only of Norse and Gaelic, but of some original language unknown, as well as of so-called Anglo- Saxon.
It is a commonplace to say that the topographical distribution of a language is not necessarily conter- minous with the spoken language. In Galloway, for (example, the spoken language is Scotch and the topo- gi-aphy (Jaclic.
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