TEESDAIE PLACE-NAMES. 9 



name — there are family names of Arnison in Allendale, "Wear- 

 dale, and Teesdale — or from earn, em, A.-S., an eagle ; or mm, 

 earn, also A.-S., a place, cottage, secret place ; and gill — ghyll, 

 in N. "W". England and Scotland, a deep narrow glen with a 

 stream at the bottom. Icel. gil. 



" Arnison is said to be the son of Arnold=:eagle power." 



Balder Beck. Beck named after the god Balder, or Baldur, 

 or Baldr, Norse, and Paltac, Old German ; the Sun God, second 

 son of Odin, or after some man so named. 



" Balder and Thor were common personal names. According 

 to Domesday Book, Tor was the JSTorman-French name of the 

 possessor of Thorsgill, who was displaced by Earl Alan, a "comes" 

 of the Conqueror. 



" Balder was used by Caedmon, the Saxon poet, to denominate 

 a prince in general. 



" Balder may be derived from Bald-dur, the bold water — an 

 impetuous torrent: without having recourse to the god Balder." 

 Dr. Whitaker's Hist, of Richmond. 



Bwr-=^diux, is Wei. for water ; but hald is not in either Spurrell 

 or McAlpine, so we can hardly accept the Doctor's derivation ; 

 an English and a Welsh word can hardly be conjoined with 

 propriety. 



Neither can we take literally as guide Sir Walter's poetry : 



" Then, Balder, one bleak garth was thine, 

 And one sweet brooklet's silver line." Rokeby. 



Blea Beck (twice) — A.-S. Ueo, colour, hue, blue; hlee, beauty, 

 The bleeberry ( Vaccinium Myrtillus), or from hide or hlcec, blsec- 

 berie. Perhaps the bleeberry beck. 



Bleda B. — hlcecl, 1, a branch, bough; 2, fruit, excellence, 

 happiness, prosperity ; hleda, a goblet — doubtful etym. 



Blind B. — perhaps from its being lost in the earth. 



Caldwell B. — of the cold well, its source. 



Cleve B. — of the cleft or cleugh.. 



Connypot B. — of the canny or pleasant hollow, or (" coney's 

 hollow." Bell.) Conny=: canny. 



Crook B. — ^? A.-S. cruc, a crook or crutch, a winding or crooked 

 beck. 



