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Hundland Hill

hill or mountain · Orkney Islands · 106m

Old NorseAI-generated

Hundland Hill may derive from the Old Norse 'hundland' meaning land for keeping dogs, possibly for hunting. The 'hill' element is a later topographical descriptor.

Word origins

hundland
Old Norseland for keeping dogs(from hundr "dog", land "land")
hill
Old Englishhill