LINKING WITH SURREY MEDIEVAL.

LINKING WITH SURREY MEDIEVAL. WordPress notifies me when another blog links to this blog. Thanks to this feature (and lee Bryant’s alertness), I became aware that Robert J S Briggs of the Surrey Medieval website linked to my post from 2008 on GRIMSTON HYBRIDS—“VIKING” AND “ENGLISH” INTERACTING. (The link is in the fourth line of the Surrey Medieval post on the words “Grimston hybrid”.) In my post, I was interested in Grimston hybrids and the evidence they provide of Angles and Vikings coexisting as neighbors in England in the centuries before 1066. I had quoted Michael Wood in the preceding post that “All the evidence suggests that [the Scandinavians] moved in alongside the native Anglian peoples rather than drove them out or made them subject.” A “Grimston hybrid” combines a Viking name such as “grim”, and “tun’, old English for farm or village.