A low-lying wet meadow or marshy grassland, particularly in Scottish and Northern English dialects.
From Old Norse gersi (grassy field) or related Scandinavian terms. The word is mainly preserved in Northern British dialects. The Norse influence came from Viking settlements in Scotland and northern England during the medieval period.
Garse is a perfect example of how Scandinavian languages left fingerprints on English geography—place names in Scotland and Yorkshire still echo with words like this that described the actual landscape Vikings encountered.
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