A side Note - The Isle of Hauge
Doggerland was always a working title, or place holder, for my imaginary isle in the North Sea and I've bean scratching around for a proper, permanent name for the land mass.
I live in The Howe of the Mearns. In Scots, Howe has come to mean valley, or hollow, which fits this area because the Howe of the Mearns was once under water and marsh, hemmed in by hills on two sides and by high ground to another. It has since been drained into a lush fertile area. However, Howe seems to come from the old Norse "Hauge", meaning mound. And so, my island was a Danish possession, known as Hauges Hav - Mound of the Sea - until the second battle of Copenhagen in 1807, following which the Island was seized by the British. Not long after it was incorporated into the British Isles.
Anglicised "Hauge" is pronounced "How".
The Isle of Hauge.
Edited by scottystitch
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