Dr Margaret Gelling

Antiquarian’s Attic is reporting that Dr Margaret Gelling died this week. For those of you not familiar with her work, Dr Gelling was one of the best known English place-name scholars. She was best known for her work at uncovering Old English origins for English placenames and the vocabulary of Old English geographical terms. A preliminary wikipedia entry for Dr Gelling can be found here.

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