[paulettefromhawaii]

I found this interesting , in the year 918 that the Vikings may very well named Liverpool..


The Irish-Norwegians took to their boats to seek land across the Irish Sea. They would find settlement in Cumbria, the Ribble valley of Lancashire (where there was already a substantial colony of Danes and Norwegians) and in the Mersey estuary where they established settlements like Croxteth and Toxteth. Even the name of Liverpool, may derive from this period, deriving from Old Norse words meaning 'muddy creek'. There was much activity and co-operation between Danes and Norsemen in this south western portion of Northumbria during this period. Around 905 A huge hoard of some 1300 Viking items were hidden under the river bank at Cuerdale near Preston, they would remain undiscovered until the nineteenth century. The Ribble was part of the Viking trade route between Dublin and York

[PhilipG]

It would be hard to put an actual date on when Liverpool became Liverpool.
The name just evolved and probably had about a dozen different spellings over the years.

[les]

PhilipG, on 15 November 2009 - 11:39 AM, said:

It would be hard to put an actual date on when Liverpool became Liverpool.
The name just evolved and probably had about a dozen different spellings over the years.

Yeah,there are few theories on when and how Liverpool got its name,it all boils down to what Liver means,it is prob something simple ,one theory is Liver ment dirty, dirty pool.

[prof]

What it means these days is "great" pool

[prof]

I think pool must have a maritime meaning as most places ending in pool are by the sea or by tidal rivers like the Mersey. I think Liverpool was once liverpul.

[tonydw]

At school, 70 years ago, we were told Liverpool was so called because a mythical Liver-bird lived at the pool; the answer sounded credible enough and satisfied our curiosity?