Place-Names in the English Bede and the Localisation of the Mss.

Reprint 2018. This examination of English Place Names in Bede's Church History was undertaken with a definite purpose, which has prescribed very narrow limits. It is an attempt to ascertain from the spelling in the Mss the range of local knowledge possessed by the scribes. It was accordingly necessary to settle from contemporary records the form of the word locally in use and, where needful, the date of the use. For the object in view the necessary documents were, besides the Latin and Anglo-Saxon Versions of Bede, only the A.S. Chronicle, the charters, and the few names scattered in Orosius and Aelfric. The modern names have been added, some freshly identified, but most according to the view generally accepted.