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Re: Gaelic Spelling of Dingwall
Posted by: Don Dingwell	Date: October 22, 1999 at 05:32:04
In Reply to: Gaelic Spelling of Dingwall by Jack	of 252

I asked this question in the Hebrides two years ago and got the answer that there was no Gaelic version of Dingwall. The word is Germanic, referring to the old Germanic council or meeting of elders, the Thing (in modern German). The word came to Scotland with the Vikings. You can find a Thingvellir in Iceland.

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Re: Gaelic Spelling of Dingwall Jack 11/26/99
- Re: Gaelic Spelling of Dingwall brande 2/26/01
  - Re: Gaelic Spelling of Dingwall Jack 2/27/01

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