50 TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



Why a place should have received this strange name does not 

 appear, unless we helieve Brockett, who says, crook was a disease 

 in sheep, causing the neck to be crooked, and that some ewe had 

 died there of that disease. 



Ceoss. 



Lat. crux ; It. croce ; Sp. and Port, cruz ; Fr. croix. 



" Wailon, creiis ; rouchi, cro ; berry, queroix, queroue ; Picard. 

 cros; Proveng. crotz; du Latin crux, crucem^ Littre. 



" Icel. hross; (Suio-Goth. Jcors, lignum supplicii, figure of the 

 cross in its various forms)." Ihre. 



Dan. and Sw. kors ; Ger. kreuz ; Dut. and Flem. kruis. 



A.-S. crod, rod, the cross, the rood. 



AYel. croes, crog, crwys; Gael, crois, crotch; Ir. cros, erois, crosog ; 

 Corn, crois, cross; Manx crosh, cross, crossey, crucifixion; Bret. 

 croe%, cross. 



Gr. " o-Tavpo9, an upright pole or stake, pile ; cross, its form 

 was that of the Greek letter T." Lidd. and Scott. 



The word cross is doubtless from the Latin, and has spread 

 with Christianity to all the western and northern tongues. 



" The combination of the two principles of nature, the active 

 or the male, and the passive or the female, appear to have been 

 represented from the earliest ages and amongst all nations by 

 the cross ; and the cross within the circle invariably represents 

 the energizing power of one or other of their divinities." 



" The tau cross or crux ansata, the tau with a symbolic circular 

 or oval adjunct, is peculiar to Egypt and Babylonia, and only 

 found, and then in a modified form, in adjacent lands, and is the 

 symbol of divine or eternal life." 



^^ The fylfot, gammadion (a word not in Liddell and Scott), 

 or Thor's hammer, or flanged thwarts, running cross or crux 

 Gothica — also a cross, occurs first on archaic Greek pottery be- 

 tween the years 700 and 500 b.c, and afterwards among the 

 Alban and Latin races ; it is also found in India (as a symbol of 

 Buddha) and in Thibet and China ; it exists in the catacombs of 

 Borne ; in Scandinavia, Germany, and England." 



