--3938578.983649918073.JavaMail.nobody@www-a28 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=646 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Mikey, Thanks for that. I'm fairly convined about map ref. I gave you, but it's al= ways useful to have your interpretation.=20 By the way, what do you make of Ettleton, previously Ediltoun ?? Regards Roy -----Original Message----- >From : Mikey <painter@onetel.net.uk> To : NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com Date : 03 March 2001 14:41:59 Subject : [NTH-ENG] Benrig. Dear Roy, > >Here are the extra bits I put together anyway!:-)) > >St Boswells/LESSUDDEN. =20 > >Previously thought to mean & to have originally been called Lis-Aidan,=20 >meaning the residence of Aidan, or perhaps Lessedwin - as it is in=20 >the old chartularies - that is, the manor-place of Edwin.=93=20 > >However as that may be, is but later not earlier as above, I=20 >felt maybe coincidental! More to it posibly than that,=20 >and set out to examine the name for much earlier foundations. > >Tho Lessudden is the name the meaning could be=20 >contained in a compound word, LES, SUD, & DEN. =20 > >Les gives an Enclosure, Garden or Fort, Les Breton &=20 >Cornish; Lios or Lis (Gadhelic); Lesse (Sclav), wood or=20 >thicket.=20 > >Sud gives South, Norsemen applied the term sudereys=20 >(Southern Islands) to all the British Islands under their=20 >control, S' of Orkney & N of the Island of Mann,=20 >gave Sutherland & etc > >Den gives a Wooded Valley. Den & Dean are Saxon. Dion=20 >is Celtic ( protection shelter). > >The village lies close but to the SOUTH of the River Tweed,=20 >flowing between bold, beautiful, WELL-WOODED BANKS,=20 >and forms the boundary with Berwickshire. It also ties in with >the other bits I speculated about and sent you earlier today. > >In 631 AD King Oswald of Northumbria invited=20 >Aidan of Iona (Saint to be) to set up a monastery at Lindisfarne=20 >with a daughter-house at Mailros, now Old Melrose. The first=20 >prior was Boisel, after whom the village of St Boswell is named. >That doesn doesn't nullify the other Lessudden and to a degree >partly encourages speculation as to why the other name was kept >and its none Norman or Latin structure too if it had been corrupted >it would appear to have gone backwards! Coincidental and oddly in French,= =20 >'Bois', gives Cross & Woodland and forms of 'el', as common village=20 >name endings . Could Horse be a version of Horst or Harts? > >It has the statue of Wallace, whether there were a succession of >forts & Battles there I dont know nor if my insight has any value >or merely ingenious? > >I should be able to unearth the old bits and copy them to you >in due course. > >Regards, > >Mikey. >Spectemur Agendo. > > > >=3D=3D=3D=3D NORTHERN-ENGLAND Mailing List =3D=3D=3D=3D >Remember be nice to one another, we only pass this way once but if we do i= t properly once is enough. It's nice to be important but it's more importan= t to be nice. > > ---------------------------------------