Kvissel

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>You shouldn't forget a bend in Odense Fjord (entrance
>to “Odins“'s “home base“) named Kvissel. (kw < tw, as in <twig>,
>thus “a branching“, cf Engl <athwart>, German <quer> “across“. There
>used to be a Dwarrbrýcke on the St. Gotthart road in Switzerland).
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>Torsten
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If this kw is <tw, then I'd like to hear people's opinions on some toponyms near me that end in -twistle or -twizzle. Is this from an OE word related to this Danish Kvissel one?

Yours
Ben McGarr

>Vae victis.

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