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 Origin of the Place-Name " Keswick " 225 Danish names in -ketil must have been very rare among Danish settlers in England and when we meet with this ending in a record of 12th century Norse origin must be assumed in the absence of absolute proof to the contrary. Furthermore the extent to which contractions and reductions of Scandinavian names in England had taken place already early in the llth century indicates that names with the short ending, -eel, etc., may very well be of either Norwegian or Danish. In the case of Keswick, Cumberland, the city is located in a very center of Norse settlement as shown by the character of the place-names around it. The settler the city was named after was then in all probability a Norseman. The original meaning of the name is 'Kells Corner/ or 'Kell's place at the bend of the river.' GEORGE T. FLOM. Dec. 31, 1918.