Morgan Richard

Place-Names of Carmarthenshire (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Place-Names of Carmarthenshire is the first publication to investigate all major place-names in the historic county of Carmarthen (1536-1974), including the westerly parts of the county transferred to modern Pembrokeshire after 1996. Tracing the history of Welsh place-names casts light upon the ways in which our ancestors lived and how they thought about the world around them. The meaning of place-names, however, is not always easy to determine because their written and spoken forms have often changed over time and particularly when the language in a particular location switched from Welsh to English. Fortunately, Carmarthenshire was not so markedly affected in this respect as many other parts of Wales but it is still easy to be mislead by modern spellings. Illustrated with many images of the county, Place-Names of Carmarthenshire examines more than 920 place-names and features a 1,000-entry Glossary of place-name elements, personal names and rivers, and is the result of the author's detailed research in archives and reference libraries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Welsh Academic Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781860571589
• Artikelnr.: 65444970

Autorenporträt

Richard Morgan is a former archivist at Powys Archives and Glamorgan Archives. He is the author of Place-Names of Glamorgan (WElsh Academic Press, 2018) and co-authored the Dictionary of the Place-Names of Wales with Professor Hywel Wyn Owen in 2007.