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Rh {|{ts|ac}
 * royd || cleared space || rjóðr
 * sackless || simple || saklauss
 * scatte || tax || skattr
 * skuggy || gloomy || skuggi (shade)
 * to speer || to ask || spyrja
 * to steven || to bespeak || stefna
 * tale || number || tala
 * to thole || to endure || þola
 * to wale || to choose || velja
 * wark || pain || verkr.
 * }
 * to steven || to bespeak || stefna
 * tale || number || tala
 * to thole || to endure || þola
 * to wale || to choose || velja
 * wark || pain || verkr.
 * }
 * to wale || to choose || velja
 * wark || pain || verkr.
 * }
 * wark || pain || verkr.
 * }

In the midland northern districts of England where the Danes and Norwegians mostly settled, a considerable number of places with names of Scandinavian descent, are to be found, such as:

A thorough study of Scandinavian literature would elucidate many points in our early history which are now obscure, particularly that portion of it comprised in the Anglo-Saxon period; and since the Icelandic language is so closely akin to Anglo-Saxon, the parent of our own, it seems evident that