94 TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



Manx leinn, cronJc ; Corn, col, a pointed hill, peak, promontory, 

 any projecting body, len, a head ; Bret. Jcreac'h, hill, grave hill. 



Lat. 7nons, collis ; It. monte, collina ; Sp. monte, colina, collado; 

 'Port, monte, eminencia, outeiro, collina; 'Fr.mont, montagne, colline. 



Gr. KoXwvrj, a hill, or separated mound, barrow, tumulus. 



Hill is a word confined to the northern languages. 



Collis, collina, collado, are most likely derived from the Greek. 



Examples ; numerous, as might be expected from the district: — 



Amber Hill — Ambrose Hill ; Ambrosius, a famous British 

 king. Amber-ley, Sussex ; Ambergate, Derby. Bell. 



Ash Hill — ^sc, A.-S., Ash Tree Hill : occurs twice. 



Bail Hill House — Baal Hill This name occurs thrice, viz. 

 at Bail Green, at Bail Hill House, not far from Mickleton, and 

 further east, near Parrick House and Moss Mire : height of last 

 over 952 feet. See Beldoo Hill. 



Battle Hill — from come forgotten battle: about 1000 feet high. 



Beldoo Hill — height 1565 feet; Beldoo Moss is near "Bail- 

 don, a trace of Sun worship." Edmunds. '' Bel, Baal, Balder, 

 the Sun god. Balderh pyre is the burning of his corpse to- 

 gether with that of Nanna (his wife). In another sense it is 

 synonymous with his festival, lel-tan,^'- the Solar fire, usually 

 kindled (commonly with fresh obtained flame), on the 1st of 

 May. It was not unfrequently kept on Midsummer Bay, from 

 a not unnatural idea that of all the days of the year that in 

 particular should be selected in which the Sun was the longest 

 predominant; and it was observed by fires, from a notion not 

 less natural, that there was a peculiar fitness in making offerings 

 to the great God of Day from his own element." Glossary to 

 Tegner's Erithiof 's Saga, Notes, p. 253. Translated by G. S. ; 

 Stockholm and London, 1839. 



Black Hill — from its colour. 



Bluethwaite Hill — hill of the blue or purple clearing. 



Bolton Hill — fi'om A.-S. liyll, tun, and lol, a sleeping room ; 

 or " Suio-Goth. lol, domus, also truncus, or bole of a tree — a tun 

 constructed of trunks of trees ; or lolly, villa primaria ; or lolare, 



♦ Bel-tan, Baal fire, from i&n, fire, In Wel., Corn, and Bret, 



