Lindow

It was a very pleasant spot for summer lunch breaks, a bench overlooking the small lake. It was about half a mile down the road from where I worked.Lindow Common. The area was very peaty, and so had a low-lying and birchy vegetation. The lake itself, in consequence was, virtually black. The writer Alan Garner has lived in the area all his life, and in his early books took the name of the place back to its Brythonic elements: Lindow becomes Llyn Dhu. And that translates as ‘the black lake’. There are Goidelic parallels to the form: Dublin becomes Dubh Llyn, similar to ‘black lake’, Maeve Sikora, of the National Museum of Ireland, suggests that the ‘lake’ could be seen as the whole of the Irish Sea, on the basis of expansive Viking control of the whole area from the centre of Viking Dublin.https://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/professions/education/the-viking-age-geography/the-vikings-in-the-west/ireland/the-city-of-dublin * Separated by a road, and by a shift in atmosphere, is the…