Raven
"David Flood" <NOSPAMmaoltuile@utvinternet.ie>skrev i en meddelelse news:a9kaus$3l3pi$2@ID-121201.news.dfncis.de...

David Flood
p.s. Jon Beck, what exactly do "Viking Low" (what I'm told "Wicklow derives from ) and "Ark Low" mean?

Raven
Haven't the foggiest, beyond the meanings of the individual words. But the peculiar English surname "Kettlestring" has nothing to do with either kettles nor strings, but is in origin "Ketil's Dringr". "Ketil" is a recorded Viking name, still surviving in Norway. "Dringr" is the ancestor word to "dreng" which in Danish means "boy" and in Norwegian means, roughly, "farmhand". To the Vikings it meant "man hired by a chieftain", "retainer", something like that. So the ancestor to the Kettlestrings was a warrior who served a Viking chieftain named Ketil in England. *Anything*, Russ, *anything* can be turned into a Scandinavian linguistics thread. B?w?h?h?h?h?h?!