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Scottish Place-Name News No. 24 No. 24 Spring 2008 The Newsletter of the SCOTTISH PLACE-NAME SOCIETY COMANN AINMEAN-ÀITE NA H-ALBA In the hills north-west of Moffatdale, Dumfriesshire (photo by Pete Drummond). The small cairn is on Arthur’s Seat, a ridge of Hart Fell, whose broad top is to the left of this view over the smooth south-west flank of Swatte Fell to cliffs on White Coomb and, to their right, the twin tops of the transparently named Saddle Yoke. The instances of fell are within the Dumfriesshire and Galloway territory of this element, with few outliers farther north or east, as discussed inside in an article on ‘Gaelic and Scots in Southern Hill Names’. White Coomb may be named after the snow-bearing qualities of a coomb or ‘hollow in a mountain-side’ in its south-east face. Hart Fell and White Coomb are the same on William Crawford’s Dumfriesshire map of 1804, but Saddle Yoke is Saddleback and Swatte Fell is Swaw Fell, making it more doubtful that Swatte represents swart, referring to the long stretch of very dark cliffs on the far side. The postal address of the Scottish Place- names, and from whom the names reached Name Society is: written record in a far away place; the events c/o Celtic and Scottish Studies, University of occurred little over four centuries ago; and we Edinburgh, 27 George Square, Edinburgh could, with a little research, gain a good idea of EH8 9LD what kind of sounds would have been represented by the names as spelled in – Membership Details: Annual membership £6 presumably – a 16th century south Slavic dialect (£7 for overseas members because of higher of the Adriatic coast; a hasty online search gives postage costs), to be sent to Peter Drummond, no indication that a Croat of today would find it Apt 8 Gartsherrie Academy, Academy Place, particularly difficult to transliterate those Gaelic Coatbridge ML5 3AX. names, or Muile, much more accurately than his Scottish Place-Name Society web site: 16th century antecedents. That these names www.st-and.ac.uk/institutes/sassi/spns/index.html could become so distorted and one of them Newsletter Editor: Bill Patterson (e-mail could be transferred to an island from a larger territory or a firth named from it, possibly [email protected]) directly by those who heard them or at most through a few intermediaries before being EDITORIAL written down, is a reminder of the problems in An article on a 16th century cannon owned by trying to make sense of place-names in what is the Duke of Argyll is an unlikely place to find a now Scotland, recorded 1600 and more years salutary snippet of information about the ago: from languages probably unfamiliar to those reliability of names recorded long ago by persons who recorded the names; by way of an unknown unfamiliar with a place or the speech of its number of intermediaries and possible changes inhabitants. The article in question, by Robert J of language or dialect; at a time when there were Knecht, is in Vol. 8, No. 2 of History Scotland, no accurate maps and no literacy in northern and among other matters deals with the history Europe; and thereafter for centuries through rather than fantasy surrounding the Spanish copying and recopying which was always liable Armada ship which famously, and with dreadful to error. That is not to say that we should not loss of life, sank off Tobermory, Mull, in late be grateful indeed for the fragments that 1588 after an explosion. What is pertinent to mediaeval intermediaries have passed on to us our interest in Scottish names is that the ship from ancient sources. came from what is now Croatia and had been commandeered with her Adriatic captain and PROF BILL NICOLAISEN’S crew by the Spanish authorities; and survivors ARTICLE IN AUTUMN 2007 who made their way home wrote, or informed NEWSLETTER: ADDENDUM someone who wrote, that they had anchored at an island called ‘Largona’ where the local lord Since his article in the last Newsletter Prof Nicolaisen was called ‘Maelan’. has become concerned about omissions from the list of contributors to Scottish place-name studies. We are very Professor Kosti who found this archive record in happy to make this addendum, as he has requested:- Croatia has identified Maelan with (in anglicised form – there are various Gaelic spellings of the Set up in the early fifties by Winifred Temple as surname) Lachlan Maclean of Duart, as the facts a major section of the founded School of seem to demand; though Maelan would not look Scottish Studies in the University of Edinburgh, out of order in a list of early Gaelic personal the Scottish Place-Name Survey came under my names. ‘Largona’ is less penetrable as there is no custodian ship in May 1956. I was joined in 1965 island of similar name in the relevant area, but by Ian Fraser for several years of complementary Alison McLeay has proposed that it is an attempt and productive co-operation. After my departure at what was earlier Loarn, now spelled in Gaelic for the United States in 1969, he became the sole Latharna (Lorne in English), the territory of an Head of the Survey until his retirement in the eponymous legendary founding Gael, now best year 2000, after 35 years of influential service. known for the name of the firth between Mull The Survey is currently in the capable hands of and Oban. Doreen Waugh. In this instance we know approximately where As is to be expected, the incumbents have been those men came from who remembered the and still are at the top of the list of published 2 scholars in Scottish place-name studies but, since 1950, a remarkable number of other individuals have contributed to the ever-growing inventory of publications on the subject, amongst them: William M. Alexander (Aberdeenshire), Elizabeth Allan (Deeside), John Bannerman (Gaelic), G.W.S. Barrow (Scottish History), Albert Bil (Transhumance), Andrew Breeze (Early Celtic), Daphne Brooke (Galloway). Thomas Owen Clancy (Irish and Scottish Gaelic), Richard Coates (Scandinavian) Barbara Crawford (Scandinavian), Anthony Dilworth (Gaelic), David Dorward (Angus), Peter Drummond (Mountain Names), Gillian Fellows- An example of John Kirk’s work, from his survey of Jensen (Scandinavian), John Ferguson farmland at Navidale (acknowledgements to NLS maps (Berneray), Carol Foreman (Glasgow), Ian Fraser website). (Gaelic and General), James Graham-Campbell (Scandinavian), Eric P. Hamp (Celtic), Stuart To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Harris (Edinburgh), Carole Hough (Linguistics, publication of John Jamieson's Etymological Language History), K H Jackson (Celtic), John Dictionary of the Scottish Language (1808), Kerr (Atholl), Jacob King (River Names), Scottish Language Dictionaries would like to offer Gregor Lamb (Orkney), Arne Kruse SPNS members a special discount rate on the 2- (Scandinavian), Donald Macaulay (Gaelic), Aidan volume photo-reduced Compact MacDonald (Irish and Scottish Gaelic), Lindsay Scottish National Dictionary (hardback Macgregor (Shetland), Neal MacGregor £67, softback £47; prices inclusive of p&p). The full Strathspey), Donald McKillop (Berneray), John text of the Scottish National Dictionary, also MacQueen (Galloway), Morgan Peadar (Gaelic), available online at www.dsl.ac.uk as part of the R. Oram (History), H. Pálsson (Norse), David Dictionary of the Scots Language, is conveniently Ross (Dictionary), S. Sigmundsson (Iceland), squeezed into these two handy volumes. Brian Smith (Shetland), John Stewart (Shetland), A.B. Taylor (Scandinavian), William P.L. Payment can be made by credit card via the PayPal Thomson (Orkney), R.G. Wentworth (Gaelic), link on the Membership page of the website John Garth Wilkinson (West Lothian), May www.scotsdictionaries.org.uk or by cheque to Williamson (street names). Scottish Language Dictionaries, 27 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LD. In addition, most of the authors of recent doctoral theses have continued to publish beyond their narrow themes. GAELIC AND SCOTS IN SOUTHERN HILL-NAMES MORE MAP RESOURCES The two main languages which mould the hill- ONLINE names of southern Scotland are Gaelic and The National Library of Scotland has made Scots. Gaelic, although widespread across the additions to the old maps available online at western half of the area, with some penetration http://www.nls.uk/maps/. These include John to the south-east, is in hill-names largely Kirk’s surveys of about 1772 of farms in Golspie confined to Galloway. In this south-western and Loth parishes on the east coast of area, most of the highest hills have a Gaelic Sutherland; and General William Roy’s name (e.g. Merrick, Benyellary), and over half of renowned mid 18th century military survey. This all its hill-names are rooted in that language. The is available as continuous Lowlands and River Nith, flowing down the east edge of Highlands sheets, which can be rolled through Galloway, appears however to be an almost directly with a mouse. It is worth noting that watertight boundary penning in the Gaelic hill- http://www.nls.uk/maps/os6inch/ will take you names, with all those to the east of it in Scots or direct to the First Edition 1843-1882 6 inches to Cumbric only: you have to go north-east to 1 mile maps which may be found more user- Lanarkshire and West Lothian to find a few friendly than the version available at old-maps. other Gaelic hill-names. This is in spite of the 3 fact that there are Gaelic settlement and water century), and hence 19th century OS mapmakers names east of the Nith. All the usual Gaelic hill- heard a local Scots pronunciation of meall far generic suspects are in Galloway, such as beinn, removed from the original.
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