[3536] Vol. i, p. 16.
[3537] Words and Places, p. 185.
[3538] Archaeol. Journal, lx, 1903, p. 174.
[3539] Origines Celticae, ii, 405-6.
[3540] London is commonly derived from two Celtic words—llyn, din—meaning ‘the lake fort’ (see Geogr. Journal, xiii, 1899, p. 299). One objection to this etymology is that Mr. F. C. J. Spurrell (Archaeol. Journal, xlii, 1885, pp. 300-2) has proved that the lake, which was described so picturesquely by J. R. Green (The Making of England, i, 1897, p. 113) did not exist. Moreover, Dr. Henry Bradley (Morning Post, Jan. 8, 1907, p. 4, col. 3) tells us that ‘the only explanation which is philologically possible is that it [Londinium] denoted a plot of ground belonging to a person named Londinos, which means “fierce”’.
[3541] I say ‘a purely Celtic name’ in contradistinction to such hybrid names as Augusto-dunum (Autun), &c.
[3542] See pp. 664-5, supra.
[3543] The Making of England, i, 1897, p. 117, n. 1.
[3544] Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, ed. Churchill Babington, vol. ii, 1869, pp. 44-6.—Secunda via principalis dicitur Watlingstrete.... Incipit enim a Dovoria, transiens per medium Cantiae ultra Thamisiam juxta Londoniam ad occidentem Westmonasterii, &c.
[3545] Archaeol. Journal, xxxiv, 1877, p. 166.