Editing Danelaw (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:South Yorkshire Place Names.png|thumb|[[Toponymy]] within present day South Yorkshire, the former Kingdom of Jorvik, showing the lasting legacy of Danish settlement]]
The influence of this period of Scandinavian settlement can still be seen in the [[Northern England|North of England]] and the [[East Midlands]], and is particularly evident in [[Toponymy of England|place-names]], endings such as ''-howe'', ''-by'' (meaning "village") or ''-thorp'' ("hamlet") having Old Norse origins. There seems to be a remarkable number of ''Kirby/Kirkby'' names, thought to stem from Old Norse ''kirk'' ("church", compare {{langx|ang|cirice, cyrice}} for church) and -''by'' ("village"), some with remains of Anglo-Saxon buildings,<ref>Taylor, H.M. & Taylor, Joan, ''Anglo-Saxon Architecture''. Cambridge, 1965.</ref> indicating both a Norse origin and early church building.<ref>introduction, Biddulph, Joseph ''Old Danish of the Old Danelaw''. Pontypridd, 2003. {{ISBN|978-1-897999-48-6}}.</ref>

[[Old East Norse]] and [[Old English]] were still somewhat mutually comprehensible. The contact between these languages in the Danelaw caused the incorporation of many Norse words into the [[English language]], including the word [[law]] itself, ''sky'' and ''window,'' and the [[Grammatical person|third person]] [[pronoun]]s ''they'', ''them'' and ''their''.<ref>Henry Loyn,'' The Vikings in Britain'' (Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers, 1995), 85.</ref> Many Old Norse words still survive in the dialects of Northern England.<ref>Joan Beal, "English Dialects in the North of England: Morphology and Syntax," in ''A Handbook of Varieties of English'' vol. 2, ed. Bernd Kortmann et al. (New York: Martin De Gruyter, 2004) 137.</ref><ref>Katie Wales,'' Northern English: A Social and Cultural History'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 55.</ref><ref>G.H. Cowling, ''The Dialect of Hackness:Northeast Yorkshire'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1915), xxi–xxii.</ref>

Four of the five boroughs became [[county town]]s—of the counties of [[Leicestershire]], [[Lincolnshire]], [[Nottinghamshire]] and [[Derbyshire]]. Stamford failed to gain such status—perhaps because of the nearby autonomous territory of [[Rutland]].