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together wuh the dales of Tilberthwaite, Yewdale, and other 

 va eys wh.ch diverge from .t ; only, I n.ay remark that, as the term 

 Gill has exactly the same meaning in Norway as ia Lakeland- 

 and I know of no more perfect example of what is meant by the 

 term than we find in the case of Tilberthwaite Gill, where the 

 waters collected upon the uplands of Weatherlam, are poured firs 

 of all down a precipice, and then force themselves through a steep 

 nai^ow and rocky gorge, in places affording the most scanty foot 

 hold for the traveller to thread his way beside the foaming sLam 

 A m the Norse, means water, and we seem to retain it in 

 Brathay, Rothay, Greta, Liza, and Eamont 



You have Fairfield, near Ambleside, and we have the same 

 name to describe a level portion of the Coniston Old Man. which 

 IS spoken of as the Fairfield. It is elsewhere used to designate 

 a tableland upon the mountains in the Lake Country, so that it 

 seems to be almost as much of a common as a proper nal 

 ^ar. the Norse for sheep, as in the Faroe, i.e., hterally'the "p 

 .sands; and Fairfield appears to have been originally'the Sheep 



n r'u ? "P '""^ P"''"''"' ""^°"§ ^he Yorkshire hills are 



called the far pastures, or sheep pastures. 



There is a number of Norse words in the Lake Country which 

 seem to partake partly of the character of proper names, and partly 

 01 that of common names. 



There is the word Gar^s, for example, which in the Norse is 

 used as signifying a field or enclosure, and has also that meaning 

 m the Bible of Ulphilas.* And in entering the vale of Yewdalf 

 from Coniston, a well-wooded eminence across the stream to the 

 right forms one of the loveliest features in that lovely landscape, 

 and that enclosure is called the Cards. The Gards is also applied 

 in the same way to several places in Cumberland, including a farm 

 of the name near Ireby ; and that large field which is encircled by 

 the village in the Abbey Town. And in all those instances they 

 are spoken of as the Gards, indicating that the name had been 



John X. I., Gards lambe is put for sheen fnlH v^^ ^\ ^ . 



