Oh, there's so much I've not yet seen or learned about London, this area being one of them. It's name seems so foreign, un-English so I'm intrigued that it has strong Scandinavian even Finnish connections. Thanks, Jean. I love the photo, it reminds me of some of the areas we saw on our boat tour on the Thames going to Greenwich.
Marja-Leena, there you see, you must come back soon... I should have said that this view is not of Rotherhithe, but looking across the river from there. My Finnish friend married her British husband in the Finnish church in Rotherhithe.
I could have sworn Chaucer mentions Rotherhithe in passing, but I'm not finding it... somewhere about where he comments about the shrews in Greenwich? I'm sure he calls out Deptford, anyway.
A hythe is a pier or a wharf, I think, in Old English. I don't know what a rother may be, but it all sounds very English to me :-)
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Oh, there's so much I've not yet seen or learned about London, this area being one of them. It's name seems so foreign, un-English so I'm intrigued that it has strong Scandinavian even Finnish connections. Thanks, Jean. I love the photo, it reminds me of some of the areas we saw on our boat tour on the Thames going to Greenwich.
Marja-Leena, there you see, you must come back soon... I should have said that this view is not of Rotherhithe, but looking across the river from there. My Finnish friend married her British husband in the Finnish church in Rotherhithe.
I could have sworn Chaucer mentions Rotherhithe in passing, but I'm not finding it... somewhere about where he comments about the shrews in Greenwich? I'm sure he calls out Deptford, anyway.
A hythe is a pier or a wharf, I think, in Old English. I don't know what a rother may be, but it all sounds very English to me :-)
Yes, the Nordic connection to Rotherhithe is old and still very present, but the place and name is much older.
It has a somewhat Venetian look to it...
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