The Bord(au), formerly Bordine, which forms for some distance the boundary between East and West Friesland, may, as suggested by Förstemann, be derived from Old Fries. and Anglo-Saxon bord, border. Another river of the same name (p. [33]) may perhaps be otherwise derived.
I am inclined to bring in here the Granta, and to suggest that it may have been a Sax. or Angle name of the Cam, or of a certain part of the Cam. This river seems to have formed one of the boundaries of the country of the Gyrvii;[66] its name appears in Henry of Huntingdon as Grenta; and the Old Norse grend, Mod. Germ. grenze, boundary, seems a probable etymon.
FOOTNOTES:
[65] Statistical account of Scotland.
[66] See an article by the Rev. W. Stubbs on "The Foundation and early Fasti of Peterborough," in the Archæological Journal for Sept., 1861.
CHAPTER XI.
VARIOUS DERIVATIONS.
In this chapter I include some names which do not come under any of the foregoing heads, or which have been omitted in their places.