Dane-lagh

Dane-lagh (Danelaw or Denalagu), the name applied to that part of England in which Danish influence was at one time paramount, and which still shows in the blood of the natives and in popular place-names a distinct Danish impression. At various times it ranged along the coast counties from Yorkshire to Essex. The southern part of the old province of Deira was the most thoroughly Danish part of the whole district, and here the typical Danish endings for place-names, thorpe, caster, and by, are still the most common. Next to Yorkshire came Lincoln, with Lindsey for its centre. The least Danish part of the Dane-lagh was East Anglia and Essex. Deira and Lindsey were divided into ridings or trithings, and these again into wapentakes, like the hundreds of southern counties. See NORTHMEN, ENGLAND.