Freswick

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58°35′32″N 3°05′12″W / 58.5922°N 3.0866°W / 58.5922; -3.0866

Freswick (/ˈfrɛzɪk/ FREZZ-ik[1]) or Skirza, is a small remote hamlet, overlooking Freswick Bay to the east, in eastern Caithness, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.[2] The village of Skirza lies directly northeast of Freswick.

Name

The name Freswick probably originates from the Old Norwegian Frøysvík meaning 'Freyr's bay'. Current Fresvik is a village in Norway. It is also suggested that Freswick stemms from 'Frisians' wick',[3] similar to the toponyms Vreeswijk and Friezenwijk[4] in the Netherlands. There is a connection with former Frisia and Freswick concerning early-medieval brooches that have been found. A fragments of Viking-Age fibula, so-called penannular brooch type, found at Freswick by Bremner in 1939 has similarities to a fibula fragment found at the hamlet of Hallumerhoek, province Friesland in the Netherlands.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "ekko". Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Freswick". The Gazetteer for Scotland. School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh and The Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  3. ^ Chamson, Emil Rudolf (2014). "Revisiting a millennium of migrations. Contextualizing Dutch/Low-German influence on English dialect lexis". Academia.
  4. ^ Faber, Hans (2022). "Dissolute Elisabeth and her Devil". Frisia Coast Trail. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  5. ^ IJssennagger, Nelleke (2017). Central because Liminal. Frisia in a Viking Age North Sea World. Groningen: Netzodruk. pp. 202–204. ISBN 9789403401973.


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