Re: The Need for Debate

Steg Belsky wrote:

> On Dec 7, 2004, at 9:36 AM, Ray Brown wrote:
>
>> ...which as you say is rather one-sided and negative. The same with the
>> Vikings - ask most people about Vikings and you will told about helmets
>> with horns and pillaging & raping. In fact AFAIK there is no evidence
>> for
>> horned helmets - it is IIRC due to a fanciful illustration in some
>> Victorian history book - and they did actually settle and develop quite
>> civilized communities, for example, at Jorvik (York), in Iceland &
>> elsewhere,
>
>
> York comes from Norse "Jorvik"?  I thought it came from Latin
> "Eboricum" or something like that...
>
Lat. Eboracum > OE. Eoforwic > ON. Jorvik > MnE York