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Cumberland twenty-eight names are given, of which
half-a-dozen are Anglo-Saxon, three or four distinctly
Norse or Danish, and the rest indeterminate. But of
the landowners in North Lancashire mentioned in
Domesday, all have Scandinavian names except two
which are Celtic ; probably their families were of
Irish-Viking or Gallgael origin.
The monuments tell the same tale. There are at
Lancaster and round about many fine Anglian sculptures,
showing refinement and wealth in the eighth and ninth
centuries ; but with these are as many of the Viking
Age, proving that the tenth century new-comers were
Christian, or soon became so, and carved tombstones
in a style which indicates their own native taste
influenced by their association with Ireland. The
area of these remains reaches from Melling up the
Lune Valley to Heysham on the coast, but does not—
so far as our knowledge goes at present—extend to the
southern parts of Amounderness, where it is to be
supposed there was less wealth and culture. It is
chiefly at the seaports and centres of travel, on the
great highways of commerce, that such works of art
are found. The Melling stone is interesting as bearing
the same pattern with similar monuments in Norse
parts of Cumbria and Scotland, though not Celtic like
the Winwick cross. The cross at Halton, further
down the Lune, has panels representing the story of
Sigurd the Völsung, a work of the eleventh century.
The Lancaster Hart and Hound cross is a remarkable
example of Norse art with Celtic influences ; but the
most noteworthy of the series is the "hogback" at
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