TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. '85 



HAnsTrNG. Heining. 



The word havning (from heavenning -place ^ i.e., a. harliour) is 

 still used in Norway for a pasture, and survives in the present 

 day much nearer home, in the Scotch provincialism haining, an 

 enclosure or enclosed pasture. The difference hetween the two 

 derivations suggested for Heynings (a place-name in Lincoln- 

 shire), is more apparent than real, since Old !N"orse hofn, hafn, 

 means pasture as well as harbour, a peculiarity maintained in 

 modern JN'orse by the two words havn, haven, and Jiavne, pasture. 

 Streatfeild's Lincolnsh. and Danes, p. 197. 



Examples : — 



Hening "Wood. 



Haining Eig, I^orth Tyne. 



Haiam. 



Can this be from A.-S. hal, healthy, and am or Mm, home ; 

 or halm, helm, healm, hcelm ; Icel. hdlmr, (Grer. and Dan. halm ; 

 Gr. KoXafios ; Lat. calamus), straw ? or hal, hoi, hole, cavern, 

 den, and hdtn, home? or Suio-Goth. hall; Dan. hal, aula, a hall? 



Hall, 



•'Suio-Goth. hall, aula, sive ilia hominum sit, sive Deorum; 

 Icel. haull (is not in the Icelandic Diet, of Cleasby) ; Angl. hall; 

 TJlphilas calls alh a temple. 



"The A.-S. writers used promiscuously alh, hahl, heel, heal, 

 and heall. In the preface to TJlphil. Illustrat. I professed my 

 belief that this word was not foreign to ancient Latium, and 

 such may be proved by the terminations of the names of various 

 temples, which end in al. Among this number are Frutinal 

 quod Veneris frutcB templum fuisse, docet Festus, Pari modo 

 fanum Minervse Minerval, Vulcani Vulcanal, appellatum fuisse, 

 to which may be added Fagutal, sacellum Jovis, ubi fagus erat, 

 arbor Jovi sacrata, Liqjercal, templum Pani dicatum, Pomonal, 

 Pomonse Dese sacrarium, Erucinal, Veneris Erycinse fanum, 

 Quirinal, Appollinal, &c. 



