Re: OT: Of Angles and Saxons

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 03:37, John Cowan wrote:
> Wesley Parish scripsit:
> > > Sally - or anyone else - do you know the origin of Lloeger?
> >
> > I've always connected it with the god Lugh, in a sense of "Lugh's land".
> > I'm probably wrong. ;)
>
> Poking about on the net shows a pretty clear lack of consensus, with
> most sources simply saying "etymology unknown".  The least ugly of
> the etymologies gives us Lloegr < LEGORENSIS (CASTRUM) > Leicester,
> an old borrowing -- but if so, where does the Latin root come from,
> if not simply borrowed from an older British?
Legor _does_ _not_ strike me as being a Latin word.  Of course it's a British
borrowing.

If Loegr's connected with Leicester, what do the archeologists have to say
about that part of the British landscape?  Any interesting discoveries?  (I
mean, I used to think M. John Harrison's Viriconium was whole-cloth, now I
find there's am actual Viriconium buried somewhere in the Midlands if my
memory serves me right.  What's below the sod in Leicester might be quite
interesting.)
>
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