ith intrusive _r_. This is perhaps from Scogin,
a name borne by a poet who was contemporary with Chaucer and by a
court-fool of the fifteenth century--

"The same Sir John, the very same. I saw him break Skogan's head at
the court gate, when he was a crack, not thus high." (2 Henry IV.,
iii. 2.)

With Scrubb of cloudy ammonia fame we may compare Wormwood Scrubbs.
Shrubb is the same word, and Shropshire is for Anglo-Sax. scrob-scire.

FOREST CLEARINGS

The two northern names for a clearing in the wood were Royd and
Thwaite (Scand.). The former is cognate with the second part of
Baireut and Wernigerode, and with the Ruetli, the small plateau on
which the Swiss patriots took their famous oath. It was so called--

"Weil dort die Waldung ausgerodet ward."

(SCHILLER, Wilhelm Tell.)

Among its compounds are Ackroyd (oak), Grindrod (green), Murgatroyd
(Margaret), Learoyd (lea), Ormerod, etc. We also find the name Rodd,
which may belong here or to Rudd (Chapter VII), and both these names
may also be for Rood, equivalent to Cross or Crouch (Chapter II), as
in Holyrood. Ridding is also related to Royd. Hacking may be a dim.
of Hack (Chapter VII), but we find also de le hacking, which suggests
a forest clearing.

Thwaite, from Anglo-Sax. [thorn]witan, to cut, is found chiefly in
Cumberland and the adjacent region in such compounds as Braithwaite
(broad), Hebbelthwaite, Postlethwaite, Satterthwaite. The second of
these is sometimes corrupted into Ablewhite as Cowperthwaite is into
Copperwheat, for "this suffix has ever been too big a mouthful in the
south" (Bardsley). A glade or valley in the wood was called a Dean,
Dene, Denne, cognate with den. The compounds are numerous, e.g.
Borden (boar), Dibden (deep), Sugden (Mid. Eng. suge, sow), Hazeldean
or Heseltine. From the fact that swine were pastured in these glades
the names Denman and Denyer have been explained as equivalent to
swineherd. As a suffix -den is often confused with -don (Chapter
XII). At the foot of Horsenden Hill, near Harrow, two boards announce
Horsendon Farm and Horsenden Golf-links. An opening in the wood was
also called Slade--

"And when he came to Barnesdale,
Great heavinesse there hee hadd;
He found two of his fellowes
Were slain both in a Slade."

(Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne.)

The maps still show Pond Slade in Richmond Park, The compound Hertslet
may be for hart-Slade.

Acre, a field, cognate with, but not deriv