Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland (SNSBI)
Adventures in Hydronomy. Autumn 2003.
A day school was held on Saturday 15th November 2003 in the Trent Building, University of Nottingham, by kind invitation of the Institute for Name-Studies.
Programme.
10.00 Registration and coffee
10.30 Welcome on behalf of the Institute for Name-Studies
and the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland
10.40 Graham Isaac (University of Aberystwyth)
‘The river-names of Britain recorded by Ptolemy’
11.30 Carole Hough (University of Glasgow)
‘Fishing places and the Northwest Germanic toponymicon:
Strensall and Streonaeshalch revisited’
12.30 Sandwich lunch
Bookstall - Shaun Tyas
2.00 Jake King (University of Edinburgh)
‘St Columba’s Black Goddess: The Origin of Lochy and
Lochty Names in Scotland’
3.00 Tea
3.30 Peter Kitson (Birmingham)
‘Right and wrong river-names in Anglo-Saxon
charter boundaries’
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