Message: "Merken" - Behind the Name

[Facts] Merken

by Merriment (guest)

3/18/2004, 3:12 AM

I seem to remember something like this turns up in the Domesday Book records for Cornwall. It would probably be mer 'sea' + ken 'hound'. In Welsh a sea-hound (Morgi) is a shark...

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