(#OldSwedish, #lögh, #bath or bathwater; #OldIcelandic, #laug, washing-water; #MLG #lōge, logge, loige, etc., #ModEng. lye, the ash extract used for washing, etc.), but after local #landowner, the latter either a simple misspelling or perhaps morphing into a more functionally-related name
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#OldIcelandic #barð, both meaning ‘edge’ or ‘rim’, some dictionaries translate the word by #‘gunwale’ (from 15th-C Eng, gonne walle) the (thickened?) ridge/‘wall’ (from OE wale, or ship’s side-timber) supporting the ship’s guns. While gunwale is often translated as #reeling (calqued on
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hið besta vopn (his best weapon), #Adder (note the initial ‘n’ in #OldIcelandic; the #English lost its ‘n’ from the #MiddleEnglish ‘naddere’, cognate with the #Latin name for ‘snake’, #natrix, to become ‘an addere’), and other sundry #plunder there. Mentioned too by #SaxoGrammaticus, with
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