Sidney Oldall Addy

“ Indeed Snaithing is a somewhat common field-name in the neighbourhood of Sheffield. It is connected with the Old Norse sneiða, to cut, and with sneið, a slice. A "snaithing" is a cutting, an intake, a piece sliced off the waste, in other words an enclosure. Some of the land at Upper Ranmoor is copyhold, and I have lately seen the title deeds of a long strip of land there which is partly of freehold and partly of copyhold tenure, the division being longitudinal. ”

“ In the south of England gauls are "spots where grass, corn, or trees have failed." [13] They are, in short, barren places. The word is the Old Norse galli, a fault, or flaw, and may be compared with the Swedish gall, barren. Galland then means barren land, and Royd is the Old Norse rjóðr, a clearing. Thus the word tells the history of the place; it is a tract of land reclaimed from a barren wilderness.
Fair Flat.—This is mentioned by Harrison as a place in Bradfield. The meaning is sheep plain, from the Old Norse fær, a sheep, and flöt, a plain. ”

“ Formerly it must have been applied to the whole valley which leads up to Bradfield. We may take it to have been Norðmanna-dalr, the dale of the Northmen or Norwegians. The name can hardly have been a modern invention; 1720 is too early for a fancy name in this district.
Butterthwaite—a place in Ecclesfield. Thwaite—Old Norse þveit—is one of the words which imply Danish colonization. Properly it is a "cut-off piece," a paddock. "It seems," says Vigfusson, "originally to have been used of an outlying cottage with its paddock." ”

“ He is led insensibly into that great literature which should have more interest for Englishmen than any other literature, and the district with which he is dealing becomes peopled with men and women with whose thoughts and ways he may make himself familiar in the pages of the Icelandic historian and Saga-writer. ”

“ II, c. 10 (1389) . He defines the word as "men to whom the cloth called cog ware was sold," and he says that some have conjectured that they were the crew of cogs, or traders who sailed in cogs.↑ Vigfusson says that the English Naughton is from naut. Harrison in 1637 mentions "Night Field" in Ecclesfield. He means neat field, cattle field. Night is now pronounced neet in the Sheffield dialect The field-name Nouchley = cattle meadow? ↑ Vigf. s. v.↑ Norden's Surveyor's Dialogue, 1607, p. 201.↑ Ibid., p. 181.↑ Halliwell's Dict.↑ Sheffield Glossary, p. ”