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52 THE GROWTH OF THE CITY
and Northmen, were, no doubt, welcomed by the infant community.
Some Danish or Scandinavian words and names still survive. Lon¬
don has its “hustings”
where other cities have
their " portmannimote " ;
among early local names
we can hardly deny a
Danish origin to Gode¬
runs or Guthorm’s,
Lane, now Gutter Lane,
or a Burgundian origin
to Lothbury, the site of
the mansion of Albert
the Lotharingian. ‘There
are other such names to
be found, but all Í want
to prove is that, even
before the~ Conquest,
London had a very
mixed population, and
that its connection with
foreign countries through
its wide commercial
activity was already a
matter of importance to
the whole nation. In
CLOTH FAIR—""YE DICK WHITTINGTON " ;
the laws attributed to
Alfred and Guthorm a man who fared thrice over the sea by his own
craít— csajt, here, may mean a ship—was accounted worthy of thane¬
right. The successive kings did what they could to foster the trade