TEESDAIE PLACE-NAMES. 156 



Rood. 



Prom A.-S. rod, rood, cross, Cleasby and Boswortli; "ro^, 

 rode, rood, cross," Lye. Icel. rotha, cross, and especially the 

 figure of Christ on the cross; rotliu Tcross, crucifix. Suio-Goth. 

 ^^rod, crux, christianismi tessera. Anglo-Saxonice rode crucem, 

 patibulum notat, rod-taen, signum crucis, rood-tree, rood-heem, 

 crux, in Chaucer." Ihre. 



In Suio-Groth, we see At han tcehi tha Thor or stafninum, en 

 setti rodukross i stadin. Quod e prora sustulerit signum Thori 

 et ejus loco reposuerit signum crucis. That at the prow which 

 had held up the sign of Thor should have the sign of the cross 

 put in its stead. (On the introduction of Christianity into 

 Sweden.) 



Dan. rode, Icors. Sw. kors. Ger. kreuz, crucifix; cross, crucifix. 



Dut. roede, hruis, cross ; hruisbeeld, crucifix. El. hruis, cross ; 

 Tcruisheeld, crucifix. 



"Wei. croes, crog, cnvys, cross, crucifix. Corn, croios. Bret, 

 croas. Gael, croes — sheunaidh, cxM(y\&K. Iv. crois. Maws, crosh; 

 crossey, a crucifixion. 



Lat. crux. It. croce. Sp. and Port. cru%. Pr. croix. 



'■'■Roode, cross or rode lofte." Crux, Theostenoferum. Prompt 

 Parv. 



" Rood, the cross or crucifix." Halliwell. 



E,ood is from Suio-Goth. and A.-S. ; cross from Lat. crux. 



Examples : — 



Pood House — house of the cross or crucifix. 



Eothwell=Rood Well, West Riding. 



Rothley^rood lea or red lea, Northumberland. 



Rothbury=:rood bury or burg, or red burg, locally pronounced 

 Rotbarry. Paulinus' Well, at Holystone, is higher up the river 

 Coquet. 



Holyrood — Edinburgh. 



Saddlebow. 



A hill on the west side of the road up the valley of the Lune, 

 near Thringarth, which has the outline of the top of a saddle 



