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Johnson believed that ugly , which was sometimes spelled oughly , derived from ouph , a variant of elf . Modern experts are satisfied that it grew from Old Norse uggligr `to be feared or dreaded.
2. Huge cow in Norse creation myth
From the Viking raids and settlements a few Norse words of Teutonic ancestry survive with technical legal definitions: gift, loan, sale, bond , and law itself.
While gardeners today make the distinction between heath and heather plants, these words are said to derive by separate paths from some ancient word for wasteland; heath via the Anglo-Saxon, and heather via Norse hadder . In Scandinavia, the plant itself is called lyng or ling , which is a common name in Yorkshire and northern England generally for what the Scots and Irish call heather . Ling is used as a name in parts of Scotland too, but this includes the rough grasses as well as the heathers that grow on the wasterland.
In his “Feather Report” of 27 October 1990, in The Times , Simon Barnes lists the following nicknames for the nightjar: fernowl, fen owl, jar-owl, churn-owl, goat-owl, goatsucker, nighthawk, dorhawk, moth hawk, wheelbird, puck bird, litch fowl , and gabble ratch , the last having its origins in the Norse meaning `corpse hound,' (similar to litch fowl , which means `corpse fowl').