I look upon this as the one large main Danish area of Great Britain, its occupants having been deduced from a series of primary settlements on the Humber. It coincides chiefly with the water-system of the Trent, makes Lincolnshire, and the East Riding of Yorkshire the mother-countries, and suggests the notions that, as compared with the Humber, the rivers of the Wash, and the river Tees were unimportant. The oldest and most thoroughly Danish town was Grimsby. The settlements were generally small. I infer this from the extent to which the names are compounded of -_by_ and a noun in the genitive case _singular_ (Candel-_s_-_by_, Grim-_s_-_by_, &c.). Danish names such as Thorold, Thurkill, Orme, &c., are eminently common in Lincolnshire; and, at Grimsby, a vestige of the famous Danish hero Havelok is still preserved in _Havelok-street_. On the other hand, the number of Danish idioms in the provincial dialects is by no means proportionate to the preponderance of the forms in -_by_. In Lincolnshire it is but small, though larger in Yorkshire and Cumberland. The extent to which the rivers which fall in the Wash are _not_ characterized by the presence of forms in -_by_ is remarkable. The Witham and Welland alone (and they but partially) have -_bys_ on their banks. Again-- Just above Yarmouth, between the Yare, the North River and the sea, is a remarkable congregation of forms in -_by_. These are more numerous in this little tract than the rest of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex together--Mault-_by_, Orms-_by_[30] (doubly Danish), Hemes-_by_, &c. This may indicate either a settlement direct from Scandinavia, or a secondary settlement from Lincolnshire. However doubtful this may be, it is safe to attribute the -_bys_ on the West of England, to the Danes of Cumberland and Westmoreland, the Danes of the Valley of the Eden. These spread-- A. Northwards, following either the coast of Galloway or the water-system of the Annan, Locker-_bie_, &c.-- B. Westwards into the Isle of Man-- C. Southwards into-- _a._ Cheshire, Lancashire, and Carnarvonshire (_Orms_-head), always, however, within a moderate distance of the sea--Horn-_by_, Orms-_kirk_,[31] Whit-_by_, Ire-_by_, Hels-_by_, &c.-- _b._ Pembrokeshire; where in Haver-_ford_ and Mil-_ford_ the element _ford_ is equivalent to the Danish _Fiord_, and the Scotch _Firth_, and translates the Latin word _sinus_--not _vadum_. _Guard_- in Fish-_guard_ is Danish also; as are Ten-_by_ and _Harold_-stone. Such is the distribution of one branch of the Scandinavians, viz.: those from Jutland, the Danish Isles, and (perhaps) the South of Sweden. That of the Norwegians of Norway is different. Shetland, the Orkneys, Caithness, and Sutherland, the Hebrides, and Ireland, form the line of invasion here. In Man the two branches met--the Danish from the east, and the Norwegian from the north and east.