Young, A Gazetteer of British Mermaid Place-names
S. R. Young, A Gazetteer of British Mermaid Place-names: England, Wales, Scotland and the Isle of Man: With an Appendix on the Mermaid Place-names of the West Indies (2021) (UK, US)
The present gazetteer offers a handlist of British (English, Manx, Scottish and Welsh) mermaid placenames. I ignored, for the purposes of this exercise, the vast number of mermaid buildings and streets: names that typically come from inns or taverns named ‘the Mermaid’. I concentrated, instead, on British rocks, pools, fields, lakes, hills, trees and caves with mermaid names. My aim in bringing together these fifty-nine names – which date from the sixteenth- to the twenty-first century – was to improve knowledge of British mermaid folklore. What could be learnt from these points in the landscape and associated legends? Where were and where are mermaids supposed to appear? When available I have included mermaid tales connected to this or that place.
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