Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition (British History)

[Wile E. Coyote]

The river was tamed.

Thames = tamed bit of River.

They used the Tyburn to tame the Tides.......

[Wile E. Coyote]

Maybe Thorney island was island of Thor, ie Thor nEy (island)? There are some that believe that Thor is not just a god of thunder but Wind, ie he is a helpful god to the Vikings (those who sail and trade between Roman vici, to Wiley, or more commonly are heathen raiders, to Christians).

[Mick Harper]

[Wile E. Coyote]

Further investigation needed into Thames

Tamar
Tame
Team
Teme
Thame
Tean
Teign


Further investigation into Thor

Torridge
Ter
Tern
Thurne
Tarvin
Torne
Trent (?)

Many of em are pushing it a bit. Still...we are progressing, not on the basis of being correct ..... but bringing forward ideas.

[Wile E. Coyote]

If you go with the Thomas = Didymos

(Didymos is actually the Greek word for twin; thoma is the Semitic word for twin)

You have a pair/twin.... tamed = tide

Thames=Tyburn

[Wile E. Coyote]

Hmm, might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.....

If Don = Dominated ie tamed

You have Lon + Dominated

Is it dominated land?

Aha no, it's simpler and more obvious you land on (go ashore, you dock) here?

[Wile E. Coyote]

You sail through to the tamed bit and then you have a choice. You can disembark at either Lundenwic, the warehouse/manufacturing bit, or Londinium according to your purpose, it's a sort of are we container or are we passenger choice.

[Wile E. Coyote]

Somehow in search of a dark age, ortho invented the Anglo Saxon emporium.......

[Mick Harper]

Don't forget that Oxford (on the Isis) is cognate with Bosphorus.

[Grant]

I can’t remember the discussion about Eastern rivers beginning with T.

Is it because rivers always started with a “the” which became shorten to “t”

Thus T’Rent became Trent and The Ems became Tems

[Mick Harper]

Dame Alice Visits Cookham

Archaeologist: "Nine times out of ten the Anglo-Saxon church is either under the Noman church or very close nearby."
Alice Roberts: "Which is great news for your quest to find the monastery and perhaps the famous Anglo-Saxon Queen Cynethryth herself. That's a nice pin. Could it have been used to tie a wimple?"
"Yes, indeed."
"That's a nice piece of glass. Could it have been part of an inkwell, hence evidence of a scriptorium?"
"Yes, indeed."
"That's a nice coin. Eighth century, minted in Kent. So more evidence of the Queen of Mercia?"
"Yes, indeed."

The Professor of the Public Engagement in Science at Birmingham University summed up: "We knew there had to be an early medieval monastery at Cookham and we are beginning to see emerging before our eyes signs of the monastery of which Queen Cynethryth was the abbess. It's incredible."
Yes, indeed.

[Wile E. Coyote]

Jut as there is some confusion over a mythological people called Vikings (actually people who worked in Roman wics), there is confusion over Saxons (actually people who occupied sectors or sections) You entered Britain through its Centrum (Centre), its Kent. To the south, Sussex, Southsector, to the middle, Middlesex (sector), to the west Wessex (sector), to the East, Essex (sector). The various sectors and the tamed bit were protected by sector castles along the outer sector shore. As you travel along the Thames you come to Slough (slow muddy), Reading (it's a region), at Reading you get a tributary (Sic), the River Loddon (load on).

[Mick Harper]

To add to the confusion we use to conflate Saxons with salt (cf Saxa Salt, still the leading brand). But I'm going with you. For now.

[Wile E. Coyote]

AS coinage looks suspiciously like Roman Republican/ Greek.

Foundation of Early Rome is based on a Wolf legend.

Foundation of English currency the penny is linked to Offa.

Offa = wolf

[Mick Harper]