Chloe Colla

Wife, mama, and PhD researcher into Cumbrian place-names, field-names, landscape, & language #medieval #AMDG #Catholic🇻🇦 @sgsah_ @uofglasgow

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Reliving part of the MA Viking and Anglo-Saxon Studies trip to Cumbria! Examining Lowther's C10th & C11th stone sculpture @JudithJesch

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@BaalkeGabrielle @beccagregs @The_EPNS This is perfect. Thank you very much!!!

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Onomast friends! A friend is trying to research a village called Borrowash near Ockbrook in Derbyshire. Does anyone have a copy of P-Ns of Derbyshire on hand to look it up? @beccagregs @The_EPNS

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@PeterJStockwell My husband suggested ‘wix’ ... Twix being a contraction of ‘two wix’ 😂😂

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@SSBullivant .... I’d buy him the toy 😂😇

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@JudithJesch @seekingwatson @2for1_pizzas Gabriel a few months back 😅

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Did we already know the Lowther hogbacks had been moved? @JudithJesch @seekingwatson @2for1_pizzas

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@JudithJesch @seekingwatson @2for1_pizzas Yes, I thought I’d better get his medievalist training started early! His onomastic training, of course, is already well underway 😂

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@JudithJesch @seekingwatson @2for1_pizzas I nearly fell over when I walked in and saw them! I was planning to trot over to the church to visit them after we’d seen the castle and suddenly there they were!

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@JudithJesch @dfgillie @CatJarman It’s fascinating to see that the similarities in the landscape struck you @CatJarman. I’m always up for a Vikings/place-names chat. If you have any questions I will do my best to answer them!

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@JudithJesch @dfgillie @CatJarman Yes, that’s right. Cumbria is the only English county where Old Norse is the predominant language in the place-names, I believe. A focused comparison between Cumbrian place-names and those in Norway or Iceland is pretty much my dream research project, post-PhD.

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@FatherFerg @TheHappyPriest 😭 beautiful!

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@Jane_S_Carroll I can’t get over the fact his name is Roland Barks. It’s excellent! This little story reminds me of The Puppy Song by Harold Nilsson (it’s the opening song of You’ve Got Mail which seems to be a recurrent feature in my life at the moment!)

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@michael_merrick 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I mean, not unlikely ... but of all the things 😅

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@SisterWalburga 💚 Just sang it to my baby boy. He loved it!

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@FrDavidPalmer They’ve also managed to call it, ‘the Wuhan virus’ 🙄

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@michael_merrick Any chance some of this will actually happen? #fountainpensforall

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@FrDavidPalmer

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@michael_merrick 😂😂😂

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@michael_merrick 😍😍😍

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@FrRobbieOCall @Franciscus858 Excellent gif