“Place at the unfordable river” has become “place at the unaffordable river” I see
reference for the uninitiated like me ☞ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counties_of_England
For those wondering why these borders don’t match up: England’s county system is actually the butchered remains of several iterations stitched together in a manner that would appal Dr Frankenstein. This image shows the historic counties, but those basically only exist for cultural reasons today and have not been used for governance since the 70s. They don’t quite match the post - see, for example, Yorkshire being one massive thing in this image but split into four in the post. Even though one of the four is called “east third”. The post’s border also don’t match the modern counties though, so I’m not quite sure what exactly is being shown, but it could be older borders or just whichever borders had the most interesting set of names
The West Midlands is stolen land !
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“Land of the fellow countrymen”
… ok, so what does that imply?
That some foreigners had taken a piece of land and cut-off this area from their kinfolk?
My guess would be that this is were there are still fellow countrymen short before where the Sc*ttish live
Man, imagine if you were one of the ‘Bright Ones’, and you were trekking up to see the ‘New Castle’, and you’d heard it was in the land ‘north of the Humber’, and thought “can’t be much further now” when you got the The Humber.
Back durong the Heptarchy pretty much everything north of the Humber was the Kingdom of Northumbria. The Danes took the southern half of the Kingdowm, leaving a Northumbria rump state over the approximate location of modern day Northumberland/Tyne and Wear.
I can’t tell if you’re trolling with this map or not. Would be helpful if it included the source language. Like do these originate from Ingvaeonic, Old English, Latin, Celtic?
So Cheshire is “chest shire”
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Chester means a Roman fort or camp (and so do all the ‘casters, ‘cesters and ‘xeters), so Cheshire would be the county of that.
