Stray Leaves from a Border Garden 
SCOTCH ENGLISH FOREIGN EQUIVALENTS 
Kemps Ribgrass (Plantago lan- Kampar (Swedish), 
ceolata) 
(This plant is also called “ Soldiers” and “ Fightee-cocks ” here, and in 
old Scotch ballads the word Kemps is used for a warrior. ) 
Kersses 
Watercress 
Caerses (Anglo-Saxon). 
Kilt 
Scotch dress 
K iolt (Icelandic) ; Kilt ( Sueo-Gothic ) . 
Killing 
Kitten 
Kitling (Danish) ; Kittsla (Sueo- 
Gothic). 
* (This word Kitling is used by Herrick.) 
Knowe 
Hillock 
Knolle (Danish). 
Kirkyard 
Churchyard 
Kirkgarth (Danish) 
Ling 
Heather 
Ling (Danish, Swedish, and Nor- 
wegian). 
Law 
Hill 
Hlaewe (Anglo-Saxon). 
Larick } 
Laverock j 
-Lark 
Lawerc (Anglo-Saxon). 
Loft 
Upper room 
Loft (Danish). 
Lowe 
Flame 
Lue (Danish). 
Laird 
Landowner 
La ward (Sueo-Gothic) ; Lavardur 
(Icelandic) ; Hlaford (Anglo- 
Saxon). 
Lammie sou- 
Sorrel (a herb) 
Lamba surd (Icelandic). 
rocks 
Little ane 
Child 
Lytling (Anglo-Saxon). 
Lucken 
To lock 
Lucan (Anglo-Saxon). 
Luckengowan 
Globeflower 
Which is tightly closed. 
Midden 
Dunghill 
Modding (Danish) ; Midding 
(Anglo-Saxon). 
Mickle 
Much 
Milcil (Icelandic); Micel (Anglo- 
Saxon). 
Mire 
Bog 
Myrr (Icelandic). 
Mirk 
Dark 
Myrkur (Icelandic) ; Myrce (Anglo- 
Saxon). 
Moudiewart 
Moldwarp 
Moudie hoop 
j-Mole 
Moldwrat (Anglo-Saxon). 
Molehill 
Moudie hoop ; Knoop (Anglo- 
Saxon). 
Neb 
Beak, nose 
Naeb (Danish) ; Nebbe (Anglo- 
Saxon). 
Neep 
Turnips 
Naep (Anglo-Saxon). 
Ousel, Ouzel 
Blackbird 
Osle (Anglo-Saxon). 
Onsted 
Farm building 
Onsted (Anglo-Saxon). 
Paddockhair 
Down 
Paddenhayr (Teutonic). 
Pade 
A toad 
Pade (Anglo-Saxon). 
Paddockstool 
Fungus 
Paddenstoel (Teutonic). 
Padder 
To tread over 
Pad (Teutonic). 
Paddock 
Frog 
Podda (Icelandic). 
Pictarnie 
Tern 
Iderne (Danish) ; Tarna (Swedish). 
Quern 
Handmill 
Qvoern (Danish). 
Reek 
Smoke 
Rog (Danish) ; Reikr (Icelandic) ; 
Recan (Anglo-Saxon and Sueo- 
Gothic). 
Rauntree \ 
Rowan / 
Mountain ash 
Ronnetraer (Danish) ; Ronn runn 
(Sueo-Gothic). 
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