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    From Gotiska Klubben,

    Seventeen Howes = Sutton Hoo
    There is an swedish theory that says that ”Sutton” mean seventeen (17) in old swedish, ”sutton”.
    And that ”Hoo” is an imported word, ”howe”, from Sweden, that has been used localy in England in different forms, like ”hoewe”, ”howe” , ”how”, ”hoh”, ”hōh” and ”hoo”.
    The Swedish word ”hög” is the same as ”howe” and its mening ”mound” in modern english. But on the time for Sutton Hoo todays english was not yet born.
    I do not trust this deduces : Sutton means ’sut’ or ‘suth’ and ‘ton’ or ‘tun’ and Hoo” means ”spur of a hill” ”South”. Who cares about south?
    And ”a spur of a hill” – it is not a proper name for the artefact that they had build. So I belvive Sutton means ”seveteen” – ”sutton” - in old swedish and Hoo means a ”howe”, from the swedish word ”hög”. It make saense.
    The wikings often use a direct och discribing language when they named a place. A lot of english words comes from Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia. Not only the english word window comes from the old norweigien word ”vindauga”.

    From Halland, south west of Sweden, comes the english words ”upstirs” and ”sissors”. Sissors is the name for the tool you cut wool from sheeps with, and upsirs is the ladder ouside the house that lead you up to the attic under the roof. And in William Shakesperares plays you can also find a lot of swedish words.

    http://gotiskaklubben.wordpress.com/...-i-sutton-hoo/

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    Sutton Hoo is in the neighbourhood of the village of Sutton.
    http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x...tton,+Suffolk+[City/Town/Village]&searchp=ids.srf&mapp=map.srf
    (follow the river upstream to the north, the hlaws are on the eastern bank just off the map)

    Heh, William the Conqueror's Domesday Book of 1086 recorded the place as Suthtuna.

    There is little reason to go searching around for obscure East Norse names here. If it were further north in Norfolk, it might make more sense to do so, but Suffolk is outside the zone of heavy Norse influence. Even haugr is unnecessary, as Hoo is attested in several places in SE England, identified by the great Swedish scholar Eilert Ekwall as Old English hoh in its dative case form of ho(e). Ekwall shows haugr giving Howe in nearby Norfolk, with a different vowel sound.

    Besides, I've been there, and to say that there are seventeen howes is NOT an obvious and plain fact. It would take some effort to count them, and doing so is not a particularly natural thing to come into the head of a visitor, never mind one who was simply passing by.

    The site IS on a 'spur of land' too. I can vouch for that.

    End of story, try again, Gotiska Klubben!

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    Waiting on the G Klubbs response...

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    I wonder if Götiska klubben is an extension of Götiska Förbundet, a nationalistic Swedish organisation which tried to prove that all Goths came from Sweden and that Sweden was the worlds oldest country and that all countries were settled from Sweden and by Swedish princes and ....

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    I browsed Jamts link.. Yes, it's a fairytale club. They write about "Returning (to Sweden) Goths"...

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