190 TEBSDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



" These were elevated places, and the name, it has been sug- 

 gested, is derived from A.-S. totian, to lift up, to spi-oiit, to ele- 

 vate, and with this the old Norse tutna. Toot hill may have 

 been derived from one or the other of these, according to situa- 

 tion in an Anglian or a Scandinavian district." Streatfield (not 

 literally), ' Lincolnshire and the Danes.' 



" May not this be a stream dedicated to the Keltic deity Tot, 

 whose cultus is supposed by some to have named the numerous 

 Toot-hills which are scattered all over the country. Balder had 

 his beck, why should not Tot have hers ? There is an interest- 

 ing paper on Toot-hills, and a long list of places with cognate 

 names, in Hone's Year Book, p. 435. That these hills, from 

 the very fact of their being hilly, should become look-out or 

 signal stations is only natural. A correspondent of Notes and 

 Queries (5th S., x., 37) quotes from Halliwell's edition of Mande- 

 ville's Travels, ' And in the mid place of on of hys Gardyns is a 

 lytylle mountayne where there is a litylle medewe, and in that 

 medewe is a litylle Toothille with Toures and Pynacles, alle of 

 gold; and in that litylle Toothille wole he sytten often tyme, 

 for to taken the Ayr and to desporten hym.' In the Latin ver- 

 sion the word is monaster ium. Professor Skeat believes that a 

 Tothill is a look-out hill, and perhaps it behoves us to accept 

 his teaching, which he justifies by citing Touthylle Specula from 

 the Promptorium. Toten, in mediaeval English, meant to peep : 

 touts pry about now-a-days." E. G. 



It can only be added with regard to Tutta Beck having been 

 dedicated to the Celtic goddess Tot, Tot homines quot sententice ! 



There is a Tuthill on the remains of the Newcastle town wall 

 overlooking the Close and the river at a considerable elevation. 



" Tote hylle or hey place of lokynge, conspicillium." Prompt 

 Parv. 



Unthank. . 



"A.-S. unthanc, no thanks, ingratitude, rudeness, displeasure 

 harm, injury." Bosworth. 



In Iceland there is ^A^sMfl; (A.-^.thanctan, 'Engl, thank, O.JE.G-. 

 danhon, mod. Ger. danhen, Dan. takke), to thank ; Sw. tacha, 



