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Re:London's Thames, once biologically dead, has been coming ... by bencollier49 on Friday November 12, 2021 @01:42PM (#29202984)
Do the Norse call it England then? I think he means they use a different name which means "Meadow Land".
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Re:London's Thames, once biologically dead, has been coming ... by kwhitefoot on Monday November 22, 2021 @08:52AM (#29306274)
Eng land in modern Norwegian would mean literally meadow country because eng = meadow and land = country. But England derives from Angle land, the land of the Angles.
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