86 TBESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



'' "With the old Gothic alh, the Greek avX-q and Latin aula 

 appear to be cognate, and perhaps also aXcros, nenrns, Incus, may 

 be related to the same, since such places, dedicated to the wor- 

 ship of the gods, were their temples. 



" Hall was frequently used as a name for palaces by Icelandic 

 writers ; but before the time of St. Olaf, King of I^orway, there 

 were no edifices so extensive as those in iN'orway ; afterwards 

 the name was given to other places intended for the sale of 

 merchandise. 



" Dan. hal ; Ger. hof, holl, of king's or earl's hall." Ihre. 



It is stated in "Old Yorkshire," second series, by "W. "Wheater, 

 p. 45, that in "the West Eiding, local names ending in hall, al, 

 ale, ele, indicate the place of a local authority, or clan station, 

 as Smeathall, Beaghall, Eowall, &c. This terminal, which in 

 Eoman times was a religious one, in Britain became social." 



" In connection with hall, aula, alh, is the Suio-Goth. sal, (and 

 the modern Sw. sal), habitaculum, conclave, the L. B. sala, 

 Arm. sal, villam nobilem. Scelalodir is the name given ' in lege 

 Dalica ' to the huts put up in the woods for the shepherds who, 

 far from towns, had there to feed their flocks. Isl. scelolus, 

 sellalodir. The root is preserved in Mceso-Gothic, in which saljan 

 means habitare, divertere. A.-S. sold, seld, mansio. Al. selitha, 

 tabernaculum. 



II. Aula, curia. The word in this sense occurs in mediaeval 

 authors, and is used to signify a smaller place where princes 

 dispensed justice, and held their solemn assemblies. 



It may be doubtful whether or not this word alh is the same 

 as the former sal, and whether or not the Goths prefixed their s 

 to the Greek avX-iq, whence we have the Latin aula, the Mceso- 

 Goth. ahl, templum, the A.-S. heal, basilica, pretorium, halh, id. 

 V. Junii Gloss, p. 49. Isl. hall, haull. Angl. hall. 



The other European languages adopt the s. 



" Al. sal, sell; Gall, salle; Pol. and Hisp. sala.'''' Ihre. 



In Ital. and Port, sala; Isl. salr ; Ger. saal; Dut. and Plem. 

 %aal; Dan. haloxAsal; Sw. sal, the saloon, hall. 



''Hall, a large room. M. E. halle, Chaucer, C. T. 2523. A.-S, 

 heall, heal, for older hal ; Dut. hal ; IsL hall, lioll ; Old Sw. hal, 



