Iain Taylor

The Placenames of Scotland by Iain Taylor Scotland is a land of many languages, including Gaelic, Pictish, Brythonic, Norse, Anglo-Saxon, and Modern English among them. The result is an often bewildering series of overlapping layers of place-names, difficult at times to understand and even pronounce. This book, featuring 8,000 names ranging from districts, towns, and villages to rivers, lochs, and...