Scotch Place-Names. By Miss Russell. 189 



a random way of indicating the north, and that Llew's 

 authority may, nominally at least, have extended so far. 



It is of interest, in connection with the Saxon occupation 

 of Lothian, that there is a Dinoran on the Carron ; neither 

 this place nor Condon on the Eoman Wall, west of Falkirk, 

 where there was a Chapel of St. Helen, are marked in the 

 ordinary maps ; but these are the characteristic dedications, 

 to St. Helena and St. Oran, of Edwin and Oswald, on the 

 frontier of Lothian towards the Picts, as they occur at 

 Lindean and Deloraine, on the Ettrick frontier of Cumbria. 

 How completely the early history of the country had been 

 forgotten or set aside, is curiously shown by such a writer 

 as the late Dr John Stuart supposing that the Church of 

 Dunbar had been really dedicated to the obscure female 

 hermit of the Clyde, to whom the services referred. He 

 wonders, in his paper on the subject, how she came there. 

 It is evident now that the original dedication must have been 

 to the well-known Saxon abbess, St. Bega, and that her 

 Scotch namesake would be hunted up after the battle of 

 Carham. St. Bega's coming from Ireland seems to be the 

 usual fiction as to the origin of a saint. St. Anne, at the 

 harbour Chapel at Dunbar, on the other hand, has a strong 

 suggestion of the Cymric period and Breton affinities. An 

 interesting duplicate name is that of Carluke, on the east 

 side of the Cl3''de ; it is a Cymric Luke's Town, and the 

 other name, or rather form, is Eglismalolks, a Gaelic Church 

 of My Lucas. 



A word which would explain many lake and river names 

 in Scotland, is a Briton Lev or Glev for water. It is not in 

 the dictionaries, but a woman from Eennes, who did not 

 speak Breton herself, but had been accustomed to hear it 

 spoken by fellow-servants from Lower Brittany, mentioned 

 that that was what they called water. Curiously enough, 

 General Stuart mentions a similarly uncatalogued Gaelic 

 word something like it. The usual Welsh and Briton word 

 for water is dour. 



