Gazetteer

Place and river names in the story and their modern equivalents. Names in italics are invented or modified for the story.

Aliso Haltern am See, NW
Anderitem Pevensey, East Sussex
Aper Vallis Turkdean; Latin: Boar Valley
Arahem Achim bei Bremen, HB
Beccs Heuwl Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex
Brekollen Hazelton, Glos.
Brennahaf Summer Hills; W: Bryn yr Haf
Buchna Bognor (Regis), West Sussex; Bucgan ora, Bucge’s (an Saxon name) shore
Castron Cold Aston, Glos. From Latin, Castrum (fort), ‘Cold’ might mean abandoned
Colonia Cologne/Köln, NW
Corinium Cirencester, Glos. Corinium Dobunnorum–of the Dobunni
Cunetio Nr. Mildenhall, Wilts
Elbe River, Germany
Elbgau Region, Northern Lower Saxony
Engaland Britain, from Old Saxon Enga Land (narrow land)
Engasee English Channel; Old Saxon Narrow Sea
Gravenenga Gravelines, France; Old Saxon Narrow Ditch
Hjerp’s Stead Hjerpsted, Denmark
Kodamurin Squire’s Copse, near Turkdean; W: Coed yr Meuryn
Kommturk Turkdean (Brythonic: Boar Valley); W: cwm (coomb) +  twrch (boar, river spirit and name)
Langleb Notgrove, Glos. Old Saxon Nat (wet) Grove through Brythonic Lan (grove) Gleb (wet)
Lanudeth Judith Grove (S. of Turkdean); Young Water Grove: Lan (grove) -udeth from C: Yow (young) + W: dwdd (water)
Londinium London
Ludgarshafen Cuxhaven, NI; coined from nearby Lüdingworth, where –worth comes from warft, an artificial mound raised as protection from flooding
Mimigernaford Münster, NW
Nantkollen Hazelton, Glos. Site of long barrows referred to as ‘Turkdean’ in Raiders of the Lost Ark (see below)
Noviomagus Reginorum Chichester, West Sussex
Rein Rhine River (Old Saxon from Old Celtic Rēnos)
Tamesis Thames River (Brythonic)
Treva Hamburg (Old Celtic name)
Venta Belgarum Winchester
Wenrisk Windrush (Brythonic: White Fens); Welsh: gwyn + OC: reisko
Weser River, NI
Westerland Britain; The coastal Germanic peoples would have had a long folk-memory that probably contained tales of the time before Doggerland was submersed. Based on this, they refer to Britain as ‘Westerland’, just meaning the lands to the west (but also a nod to the town on the Isle of Sylt)

NI: Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony)
NW: Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine Westphalia)
HB: Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (Freie Hansestadt Bremen)

Turkdean/Hazelton reference from Indiana Jones