l86 TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



TODWOETH [^ToOK. 



Corner of the foxes' worth. " A.-S. iveorthig, which bears a 

 meaning nearly the same as that of tun or garth. It denotes a 

 place warded or protected." Taylor. See Worth. 



IS'ook, from Gael, niuc ; not in Wei. 



Examples : — 



Cockland Nook — corner of grouse land. 



Low Nook, near Thringarth, on the Lune. 



Mne Nicks of Thirlwall, Northumberland. 



Ton. Tun. 



Icel. ^'■tiin (a word widely applied, and common to all Teutonic 

 languages: the Goth, is not on record; A. -8. tun; Engl, town; 

 0. H. G. %un ; Germ. %aun ; Norse tim), properly a hedge. This 

 sense is still used in the Germ. %aun ; but in Scandin. the only 

 remnant seems to be the compound tun-ritha, witch, ghost. II. 

 a hedged or fenced plot, enclosure, within which a house is built; 

 then the farm house with its buildings, the homestead ; and 

 lastly, a single house or dwelling. In Norway tun is := Dan, 

 gaards-plads^ the quadrangle or premises attached to the build- 

 ings, whereas Id answers to the modern Icel. ' tiin.'' 



"The ancient Scandinavians, like other old Teutonic people, 

 had no towns. Tacitus says, ' nullas Germanorum populis urbes 

 habitare satis notum est ; ne pati quidem inter se junctas sedes. 

 Colunt discreti ac diversi, ut fons, ut campus, ut nemus placnit.' 

 Germ, ch, 16. In Norway, the first town, Nitharos, was founded 

 by the two Olaves (Olave Tryggvason and St. Olave, 994 — 1030), 

 and this town was hence par excellence called Kaupang. But 

 the real founder of towns in Norway was King Olave the Quiet 

 (1067 — 1093). As to Iceland, the words of Tacitus, 'colunt 

 diversi, ut fons, &c., placuit,' still apply; 120 years ago (in 

 1752) the only town or village of the country (Reykjavik) wag 

 a single isolated farm." Cleasby. 



" Tuna denotes a place closed in with a hedge, from A.-S. 

 tynan, claudere, hetynan, untunan, aprire. Hib. dunam. A.-S. 



