| Freswick | |
|---|---|
 Remains of Buchollie Castle | |
  Freswick Location within the Caithness area | |
| OS grid reference | ND3667 |
| Council area | |
| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
Freswick (/ˈfrɛzɪk/ FREZZ-ik[1]) or Skirsa, is a small remote hamlet, overlooking Freswick Bay to the east, in eastern Caithness, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.[2] The village of Skirza lies directly northeast of Freswick.
Name
The name Freswick probably originates from the Old Norwegian Frøysvík meaning 'Freyr's bay'. Current Fresvik is a village in Norway. It is also suggested that Freswick stemms from 'Frisians' wick',[3] similar to the toponyms Vreeswijk and Friezenwijk[4] in the Netherlands. There is a connection with former Frisia and Freswick concerning early-medieval brooches that have been found. A fragments of Viking-Age fibula, so-called penannular brooch type, found at Freswick by Bremner in 1939 has similarities to a fibula fragment found at the hamlet of Hallumerhoek, province Friesland in the Netherlands.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ "ekko". Retrieved 31 December 2019.
- ↑ "Freswick". The Gazetteer for Scotland. School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh and The Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
- ↑ Chamson, Emil Rudolf (2014). "Revisiting a millennium of migrations. Contextualizing Dutch/Low-German influence on English dialect lexis". Academia.
- ↑ Faber, Hans (2022). "Dissolute Elisabeth and her Devil". Frisia Coast Trail. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
- ↑ IJssennagger, Nelleke (2017). Central because Liminal. Frisia in a Viking Age North Sea World. Groningen: Netzodruk. pp. 202–204. ISBN 9789403401973.