An archaic or dialectal term for a fortified settlement or borough, particularly in Scandinavian contexts.
From Old Norse 'borg' meaning 'fortress' or 'fortified town', related to Germanic 'burg' (city, fortress), a root that appears in many English place names and '-burgh' suffixes.
Every '-bury' or '-borough' in English place names (like Canterbury, Edinburgh, Scarborough) is essentially a descendant of 'borg'—the word traveled with Norse and Germanic peoples and got frozen into the landscape.
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