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- Place names ending in -by, such as Selby or Whitby. These -by endings are generally places where the Vikings settled first. In Yorkshire there are 210 -by place names. The -by has passed into English as ‘by-law’ meaning the local law of the town or village.www.viking.no/the-viking-heritage/the-viking-linguistic-heritage/place-names-in-…
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