The house on the hill before us, above fields sloping to the flats, is the Thwaite house. _Thveit_ in Iceland, which the Norsemen colonized, means a field sloping to a flat. On the wooded hill behind it are enclosures called the high and low Guards--"yard" would be the Saxon word; _gardhr_ is the Norse, becoming in our dialect sometimes "garth" and sometimes "gard" or "guard." At the Waterhead the signpost tells us to follow the road to Hawkshead, anciently Hawkens-heved or Hawkenside--_Hauk's_ or _Hákon's_ headland or seat. Taking the second turn to the left we go up the ravine of Tarn Hows Gill (_Tjarn-haugs-gil_), and reach a favourite spot for mountain views. Above and around the moorland lake rise the Langdale Pikes (_Langidalr_ there is also in Iceland), Lingmoor (_lyng-mor_), Silver How (_Sölva-haugr_), Loughrigg (_loch-hryggr_), Fairfield (_fær-fjall_), Red Screes (_raud-skridhur_), and on the left Weatherlam (_vedhr-hjalmr_) and all the _fells_ and _dales_, _moors_ and _meres_, which cannot be named without talking Norse. Descending to the weir which was built by the late Mr. Marshall, to throw into one the three Monk Coniston Tarns, as the sheet of water is still called, a broken path leads us down past the waterfall of Tom or Tarn Gill, romantically renamed Glen Mary, and now even "St. Mary's Glen," and out upon the road opposite Yewtree House, behind which stood the famous old yew blown down in the storm of 22nd December, 1894. Turning to the right, we pass Arnside (_Arna-sidha_ or _setr_, Ami's fellside or dairy) and Oxenfell (_öxna-fell_), and soon look down upon Colwith (_Koll-vidhr_, "peak-wood" from the peaked rocks rising to the left above it; or _Kol-vidhr_, wood in which charcoal was made). We quit the road to Skelwith (_skál-vidhr_, the wood of the scale or shed) and descend to Colwith Feet (_fit_, meadow on the bank of a river or lake), and ascend again to Colwith Force (_fors_, waterfall), and pass the _Tarn to Fell Foot_, an old manor house, bought in 1707 by Sir Daniel Fleming's youngest son Fletcher, ancestor of the Flemings of Rayrigg, who placed his coat of arms over the door (as Mr. George Browne of Troutbeck says--Cumb. and West. Antiq. Soc. _Transactions_, vol. xi., p. 5).