Fife

BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 'SCOTTISH TOPONYMICS'

compiled by Simon Taylor

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FIFE

Breeze, A., 1997, ‘Etymological Notes on Kirkcaldy, jockteleg ‘knife’, kiaugh ‘trouble’, striffen ‘membrane’ and cow ‘hobgoblin”, Scottish Language 16, 97-110 [Kirkcaldy 97-9]

Henery, R., and Taylor, S, 2007, ‘Pitmiclardie in Fife’, Journal of Scottish Name Studies 1, 148–50.

Hough, Carole, 2002, ‘Onomastic Evidence for an Anglo-Saxon Animal Name: OE *pur ‘male lamb’, English Studies 83 (no.5, November 2002) 337-90 [includes discussion of Pusk, Leuchars, FIF].

Márkus, Gilbert, 2007, ‘Gaelic under Pressure: a 13th-century charter from East Fife’, Journal of Scottish Name Studies 1, 77-98.

Márkus, Gilbert, 2010, Place-Names, Protein and Power: The meaning of the Falkland Trenches (Falkland Centre for Stewardship, Falkland).

Taylor, S., 1994 Some Early Scottish Place-Names and Queen Margaret’, Scottish Language 13, 1-17.

Taylor, S., 1994 ‘Babbet and Bridin Pudding or Polyglot Fife in the Middle Ages’, Nomina 17, 99-118.

Taylor, S., 1995, Settlement-Names in Fife’: deals with west Fife and the medieval parish of St Andrews & St Leonards. Unpublished PhD., University of Edinburgh, 1995 (copy also at St Andrews University).

Taylor, S., and Henderson, J. Michael, 1998, ‘The medieval marches of Wester Kinnear, Kilmany Parish, Fife’, Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal 4, 232-47.

Taylor, S., 2000 ‘Place-Names of Fife’, in The Fife Book ed. D. Omand (Edinburgh), 205-20.

Taylor, Simon, 2008, ‘Pilkembare and Pluck the Craw: verbal place-names in Scotland’, in A Commodity of Good Names: Essays in Honour of Margaret Gelling, ed. O. J. Padel and David N. Parsons (Donington), 274–85.

Taylor, Simon, 2009, ‘The Trenches at Falkland, Fife: a Legacy of Royal Deer-Management?’, in Carmarthenshire & Beyond: Studies in History and Archaeology in Memory of Terry James, ed. Heather James and Patricia Moore (Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society, Carmarthen), 235–44.

Taylor, S., (with Gilbert Márkus) 2006, Place-Names of Fife Vol.1 (West Fife between Leven and Forth) (Donington 2006) [volume 1 of a 5-volume series].

Taylor, Simon, with Gilbert Márkus, 2008, Place-Names of Fife Vol. 2 (Central Fife between Leven and Eden) (Donington) [volume 2 of a 5 volume series].

Taylor, Simon (with Gilbert Márkus), 2009, Place-Names of Fife Vol. 3 (St Andrews and the East Neuk) (Donington) [5-volume series].

Taylor, Simon (with Gilbert Márkus), 2010, Place-Names of Fife Vol. 4 (North Fife between Eden and Tay) (Donington) [5-volume series].

Whittington, G., 1991, Place-Names in Northern Fife’, Nomina 13, 13-23.