WUOTAN, WODEN, or Odin, the presiding deity of the Northern nations, has his name preserved in O-dean, WOODEN-dean, (ODIN’S-hollow), WOODS-dale (ODIN’S-vale); WEDNES-bury and WAN-borough (ODIN’S-city); WEDNES-field (ODIN’S-field); WAM-pool (ODIN’S-pool); WAM-brook (ODIN’S-brook); WON-stone (ODIN’S-stone); WANS-ford (ODIN’S-ford); WANS-beck (ODIN’S-rivulet); WAN-stead (ODIN’S-residence); WENS-ley-fold (ODIN’S-meadow-enclosure); WANS-dike (ODIN’S-ditch); ODIN’S-wald (ODIN’S-forest); ODEN-se (ODIN’S-lake.) The name of his wife, FRIGGA, FREA, or FREYJA, occurs in FREYS-torp, in FRIDAY-thorpe, and FRAIS-thorpe (FRIGGA’S-city.) We are reminded of THOR by such places as THOR-up and THORS-torp (THOR’S-city); THORs-dal and TURS-dale (THOR’S-vale); TOR-ness (THOR’S-promontory); THURS-by, and THURSO-by (THOR’S-town); THURDYS-toft (THOR’S-field); TOR-boll (THOR’S-dwelling); Kirby-Thore (Church of THOR); THURS-ley, and THUR-ley (THOR’S-meadow); THORS-aa (THOR’S-stream). Thor was also known by the names of DONAR (THUNOR) and HAMAR, which occurs in THUNDERS-field (THOR’S-field); and in THUNDERS-ley (THOR’S-meadow); in HAMER-ton and HOMER-ton (THOR’S-town); HAMER-ton-kirk (THOR’S-town-Church); HAMER-wick (THOR’S-marsh); and in HAMER-stein (THOR’S-stone). The name of BALDER, the son of Odin, and god of light, is still preserved in BALDERS-ley (the meadow of BALDER); BALDERS-dale (BALDER’S-vale); BOLDRE-wood (BALDER’S-wood); and in BALDERS-haye (BALDER’S-enclosure); that of BRAGE, the god of orators, in BRAG-naes (BRAGE-naes, the promontory of BRAGE). The god of war and of champions, TEU, TIW, or TYR, has his name conferred upon TEWES-ley, and TEW-ing (the meadow of TEW), and upon TYE-hall and TYE-farm. LOK appears in LOX-wood, LOX-field, and in LOCK-ing. SEATOR appears in SATTER-leigh, SATTER-thwaite, and in SATTER-land. Perhaps local names are indebted to the fairy mythology. MAB, the elf queen, occurs in MAB’S-hill, and the merry PUCK in PUCK-pool Bay, POOCK-burne (PUCKE-ridge), POOCK-hill, and PUCKE-tye. GRIM-a, a ghost, hag, or witch, is found in GRIMS-by, GRIMS-bury, GRIMMS-hoo, GRIMS-how, and in GRIMS-ditch. It is the safest plan, however, in tracing local names to their origin, to resort to such a mode for their explanation only when we find ourselves unable to offer a more rational etymology—that is to say, one in harmony with their natural or historical associations. (_B_) NAMES OF ANIMALS. The names of animals which enter largely into geographical nomenclature need little explanation; most of them, being familiar, may be easily identified. NATE, NET (Scandinavian) horned cattle; NEAT (English), occurs in NATE-ly, NAT-land, and NATE-ly Scures. The WILD BOAR, in Anglo-Saxon EVER (éofer, ebur, efer), is found in