[tied] Re: Permian

> So 'the farm
> of the Riverbank-ingas' is not an impossible type of English

placename,

> but, first, OE *beorm is attested neither as an appellative

meaning

> 'bank/edge...' nor as the name of a river or a region. Secondly,

the

> vast majority of <-inga ham> placenames in England are derived

from clan

> names based on monothematic (seldom dithematic) personal names, so

the

> analysis of DB Bermingeham as 'the settlement of Beorma's men (the
> Beormingas)' is entirely unproblematic. Even many of the

apparently

> obvious counterexamples cases like Wateringbury, Kent, on careful
> investigation turn out to be derived from clan names (in this

case,

> *Ohtheringa burh).
>

On the subject of Ohther, here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarmland

one can find the OE name of the Biarmians.


Torsten