--- Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...> wrote:
> Probably by then, they will have appended -land, and
> called the
> province Byntarland, with a regular fem. i-stem
> genitive.
>
> Now, if this were borrowed into English, we would
> probably get y>i
> parallel to other ON loans, and possibly eventually
> the genitive
> ending would be lost altogether, giving a modern
> Bintland.
I just love 'Bintland' - it conjures up such a
marvellous mental image of some kind of theme park of
'ill repute'.
Capital city would have to be Wenchborough...
P.