Talk:Stanegate

Moved from article to Talk page --Nate 01:57 Nov 27, 2002 (UTC)

This is not a very good encyclopedia if I am meant to create my own information to post!


 * Well, that's the whole idea. Read here for more. --Eloquence 09:22 Nov 20, 2002 (UTC)

Map is incorrect!
The map accompanying this article wrongly shows the Roman road crossing the wall as Wattling Street. In fact, the road was Dere Street. Wattling Street connected London with Chester. Dposte46 (talk) 09:55, 14 June 2008 (UTC) I hadn't realised that Dere Street was also called Watling Street. See article on Watling Street. Dposte46 (talk) 13:35, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Old Norse
I ave removed the rafaerence to Stanegate being Norse as though gate with the sense of "street" may be borrowing from Norse into various Northern English dialects (I say may as O.E. always had the sense of "passage way" rather than strictly our modern idea of a hinged gate) "Stanegate" itself isn't Old Norse which would be something like Steinn gat and is made of two elements stane' which is a dialectal variant of stone and likewise derives from the O.E. stan and the dialectal gate (which may be ultimately an O.E. or Middle English borrowing from Norse) and which on some old maps such as mine from the 1800s was also written as Staneyate which features the alternative form of gate, yate, which preserves the Old English pronunciation of gate, the O.E. geat''. All "hard-g" forms being of course Norse influenced in their pronunciation. Sigurd Dragon Slayer (talk) 12:34, 8 May 2019 (UTC)