Subject: Places named after states (was Re: Glenelg<br/>
Date: Dec 03, 2001 @ 05:58<br/>
Author: orc@orcoast.com (orc@...)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1792365018">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;Jan Krogh&quot; &lt;jakro64@y...&gt; wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; I don&#39;t think the Danish Vikings were so much involved with Jorvik. This was<br/>
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&gt; in general a Norwegian-Icelandic Viking territory. The Danish Vikings ruled<br/>
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&gt; more in the Eastern and Southern parts of England.  (&quot;Gate&quot; (Norw.) =street;<br/>
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&gt; &quot;Gade&quot; (Danish) = street; &quot;Gata&quot; (Swed.) = street; &quot;Gatve&quot; (Lith.) =<br/>
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&gt; street.)<br/>
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&gt; But I accept that the Romans were there before us... Anyhow the York would<br/>
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&gt; not become York without the Vikings ;-)<br/>
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&gt; Jan<br/>
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&gt; -----Original Message-----<br/>
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&gt; From: Peter Smaardijk [mailto:smaardijk@y...]<br/>
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&gt; Sent: 3. desember 2001 00.55<br/>
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&gt;  I wouldn&#39;t know about that, but what I do know is that in the old<br/>
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&gt; town of York (which is, as you all will know, a shambles) the streets<br/>
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&gt; are called &quot;gates&quot;, which are not English gates, but rather Danish<br/>
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&gt; streets.<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>amazing  peter  but how did you know we would all know that  or did you just know anton would tell us that too  <br/>
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ok ok so i get that part now  but then didnt you also know jan would be telling us this part  for i still dont know even afterwards how you manage to know in advance  m</div>