See also https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=EPNL;19a869aa.1404 .
Keith
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Sent: 30 January 2019 18:01
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Subject: Re: Supernatural Place-Names
Thanks, John, that must be the answer and I’ll follow it up.
My thanks to Geoff Tan, too, but I’m not sure that’s a solution, since Smith himself refers to Nycharpool at 2 p50 but in the same entry notes Nikirwells as a separate name.
As you might expect from an aquatic spirit, the nicor is closely related to the red herring. I noted a dozen eighteenth- and nineteenth-century names in Nicker- from PN Cheshire assigned by Dodgson to nicor: that’s too many to be credible. They are generally names of pasture or meadow and may be something to do with nicker, the Cheshire dialect for goldfinch. Maybe Will Swale’s names in Nick Close etc. are something of the same kind.
Jeremy Harte
From: The English Place-Name List <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of BRIGGS JOHN
Sent: 30 January 2019 14:58
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Subject: Re: Supernatural Place-Names
Jeremy Harte wrote:
Now that the fairies have crept in – as they always will, if you’re not careful with St. John’s wort and scythe blades up the chimney – can I ask if anyone knows more about some place-names in EPNE? At 1 p149, sv elf, Smith cites a form Elvenfen from Lincs; at 2 p50, sv nicor, a form Nikirwells, also from Lincs; and I can’t find where these places are, or date the forms.
At 2 p114, sv scrçawa (and presumably thinking of a gen. scrçawan + ôra), Smith gives the name Shroner in Hants. This is Shroner Wood in Martyr Worthy, SU 519 355, but I couldn’t find any early forms. He also gives, sv pûca, the name Pugdells in Hants, for which Reaney in The Origin of English Place-Names p223 supplies the form Pukedelle 1263, and which some rootling online reveals to be a quarry pit in Wield, but no source for the early form.
Can anyone suggest where I should be looking?
I think the precise answer to your question may be "EPNS files at Nottingham (card indexes?)" The Hampshire forms should be in the unpublished Survey volume by J.E.B. Gover - I don't have copy, but there are several samizdat copies about.
John Briggs
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