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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. London has its “hustings” where other cities have their " portmannimote " ; among early local names we can hardly deny a Danish origin to Goderuns 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 thaneright. The successive kings did what they could to foster the trade
