Bibliography — Classification Index

Analyses the etymology and usage of this name and argues it does not denote a particular location but is in origin a pejorative term directed at the Vikings, later replaced by more familiar Lochlann.

ad Tuile in Acallam na senórach line 387 (as ed. by M. Dillon 1970 [BILL 5221]); argues it refers to Toulouse.

Includes discussion of cailleach in Ir. and Sc. place names.

vs. DIL s.v. Seiria ‘Syria’, Seiricda ‘Syrian’. Ir. Seiria, Seiricda, and Serdae derive from L Sēres (nom. pl.), Sēricus (adj.) ‘Chinese’; also on Seir, son of Adam, whose descendants survived the Flood.

Suggests it derives from OIr. andóit.

On the Scottish Gaelic origin of New Zealand (Bal)Clutha and Dunedin.

Suggests this place name is an allusion to the Red Sea, which enables a comparison of Adomnán to Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt.

On the type Setmurthy (< sætr + Muiredach, ‘Muiredach’s shieling’). In Appendix: [collection of] inverted compounds and related types in North-West England .

Includes a case-study on the origin of the mythical island of Brasil (variously documented as Hy Brasil, O’Brasil, Breasail or Brazil).

Fully revised, updated and expanded version of Dictionary of English place-names (Oxford: OUP, 1991; 2nd ed. 1998), with additional entries from Scotland and the Scottish islands, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Rev. by
Guy Beiner, in IHS 37, nº 145 (May, 2010), pp. 146-148.
Timothy C. Correll, in Béaloideas 76 (2008), pp. 298-301.
Arnold Horner, in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 13 (2007), pp. 1033-1044.