Editing Hogmanay (section)

===Possible Norse etymologies===
Other authors{{who|date=November 2022}} reject both the French and Goidelic theories and instead suggest that the ultimate source for this word's Norman French, Scots, and Goidelic variants have a common Norse root.<ref name=Harrison>Harrison, W. ''Mona Miscellany'' (1869) Manx Society</ref> It is suggested that the full forms
* "Hoginanaye-Trollalay/Hogman aye, Troll a lay" (with a Manx cognate {{lang|gv|Hop-tu-Naa, Trolla-laa}})
* "Hogmanay, Trollolay, give us of your white bread and none of your gray"<ref>Chambers, R. ''Popular Rhymes of Scotland'' (1841) W&R Chambers p. 165</ref>
invoke the hill-men ([[Icelandic language|Icelandic]] {{lang|is|haugmenn}}, compare [[Old English|Anglo-Saxon]] {{lang|ang|hoghmen}}) or "elves" and banishes the [[troll]]s into the sea (Norse {{lang|non|á læ}} 'into the sea').<ref name = Harrison/><ref name=Repp>Repp, Þorleifur ''On the Scottish Formula of Congratulation on New Year's Eve – "Hogmanay, Trollalay" (1831) Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Vol IV''</ref> Repp furthermore links "Trollalay/Trolla-laa" and the rhyme recorded in ''[[Percy's Relics]]'': "Trolle on away, trolle on awaye. Synge heave and howe rombelowe trolle on away", which he reads as a straightforward invocation of troll-banning.<ref name = Repp/><ref>Percy, Thomas ''Percy's Reliques'' (1765)</ref>