Buy this book on-line NICOLAISEN,W.F.H: : SCOTTISH PLACE NAMES: THEIR STUDY AND SIGNIFICANCELONDON.BATSFORD Ltd.,1976. ISBN 0713432535.
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In a work which has been over 20 years in the making,Professor W. F. H. Nicolaisen has produced the first cohesive and systematic study of Scottish place-names. In it he relies on the dual approach of the distribution of the place-names in space and time.The approach is given graphic form by more than 20 maps.It is in this context that Professor Nicolaisen considers in turn: the Written Evidence; Distribution in Time and Space; the Youngest Names; Early English Names; Scandinavian Names; Gaelic Names; Pictish and Cumbric Names; and Pre-Celtic Names. The book is given academic authority by its extensive Bibliography and by its long list of sources (many of them pioneer contributions to learned journals by the Professor himself).
For many years Director of the Scottish Place-Names Survey in the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh,W. F. H. Nicolaisen is now Professor of English and Folklore in the State University of New York at Binghampton (then 1976).He is also co-author and editor of 'The Names of Towns and Cities in Britain.' (Batsford).
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