Sunday, October 30, 2011
Icelandic name of Stonehenge
Stonehenge means ‘Stone gallows’, from OE
stán
(Icel.
steinn
) + hengen (Icel.
hangi
, plur.
hangar
in the meaning of gallows). See:
http://users.telenet.be/Hafronska/Icelandic_equivalents_of_the_English_place-names_(uncorrected_version).doc
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