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Amazing Maps @amazingmap - A political settlement agreed in the late 9th century still marks England’s landscape through language.
The Danelaw emerged after Alfred of Wessex and Guthrum, a Viking ruler, agreed on a division of territory in the late 870s or 880s. Viking control was strongest in the north and east, and that is where Old Norse place-name elements became deeply embedded.
Names ending in -by usually come from the Old Norse word for a farmstead or village, -thorpe often points to a secondary settlement, and -toft refers to a homestead or house plot. That is why names like Grimsby, Derby, and Scunthorpe cluster so heavily in eastern and northern England.
Further south and west, Old English endings are much more common. -ton usually meant an enclosed farm or settlement, -ham a homestead or village, and -ford a river crossing.
The line on this map is simplified, but the pattern is real. More than 1,000 years later, one of the clearest traces of Viking settlement in England is still visible in everyday place names.
https://x.com/amazingmap/status/2043670332255424754

Ambassador Mike Huckabee @USAmbIsrael - Video: As Yom HaShoah begins this evening, we remember the six million Jewish men, women, and children murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust, the systematic attempt to annihilate the Jewish people from the face of the earth.
https://x.com/USAmbIsrael/status/2043619014954430850

Ambassador Mike Waltz @michaelgwaltz - Strong, principled statement from Singapore on its refusal to cut “side deals” w Iran.
Quote:
Omar Ghanim (PhD - Int. Policies) @DrOmarGhanim
Translated from Arabic
Singapore's Foreign Minister, in a parliamentary statement today regarding opportunities for negotiations with Iran to allow Singaporean ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, said:
1. We will not negotiate with the Iranians, nor will we be part of normalizing a practice that violates the Law of the Sea and the UNCLOS Convention.