NOMINA 23 (2000)

CONTENTS

River and valley terms in the Book of Llandaf John Coe.

The names given to ships in fourteenth and fifteenth century England. Malcolm Jones.

'Bullion' in Scottish place-names. Margaret Scott.

Some Belfast place-names. Patrick McKay.

Approaches to the stidy of English forename use. John Martin Corkery.

Thoughts on L'Ancresse, Guernsey. Richard Coates

Carolside in Berwickshire and Carelholpit in Lincolnshire. Carole Hough

Caxton's tale of eggs and the North Foreland, Kent. Andrew Breeze

John Aubrey, pioneer onomast? Gillian Fellows-Jensen

Why the difference? An attempt to account for the variations in the phonetic development of place-names in Old Norse bolstadr in the Hebrides. Peder Gammeltoft

The Welsh mystwyr. Gwynnedd O. Pierce.

Old English merece 'wild celery, smallage' in place-names. Ann Cole, Janay Cumber and Margaret Gelling.

Gawain/Gwalchmai and his peers: romance heroes (and a heroine) in England, the Celtic lands and the continent. Peter Kitson.

Conference Report: Bangor 2000

OBITUARY

Richard McKinley (1921-1999).

REVIEWS

Owen The Place-Names of East Flintshire. (Freeman)
Mills A Dictionary of English Place-Names. 2nd edn (Hough)
Runor och Namn. Hyllningsskrift till Lena Peterson edited by Elmevik & Strandberg (Gammeltoft)
McKay Place-Names of Northern Ireland, 4, County Antrim. (Fraser)
Cameron A Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place-Names (Hough).
Sobanski Die Eigennamen in der Detektivgesschichten Gilbert Keith Chestertons (Nicolaisen).
Den nordiska namnforskningen, i gar, i dag, i morgan edited by Wahlberg (Smart)
Hilton A Portrait of Kenilworth in Street Names (Smart)