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tance,' a name very frequently found in the Land-
ndmaboc.
In Lincolnshire there is a place called Laceby,
which in the Domesday Book is written Levesbi,
and in the Hundred Rolls, Leyseby.
Compare (Norman) Lacy.
Lace [1643], Leece [1679], Lase [1693], Leese [1695],
M<=yLeese [1746].
It is not so common as formerly.
Bride, German (vc), Maughold, Santon, Andreas, Lezayre,
Patrick (c), elsewhere (u).
MacAlcar [1511] (obsolete), probably from (O.N.)
Alfgcirr.
ScARFF. Dr. Vigfusson suggests that this name is
probably derived from (O.N.) skar'^, ' a mountain
pass.' SkarS is common in local names in Ice-
land, and we find Scarf-gap in Cumberland, so
that the surname may have been taken from one
of the places so called. Other possible derivations
are from skarhi, ' hare-lip,' a nickname which was
a frequent Danish proper name on Runic stones,
or from skarf, 'a cormorant,' which is used as a
nickname in the Landndmahoc. The cormorant is
still called 'the Scarf,' in the Shetlands. Scharf
is found in the Hundred Rolls.
The name is now very uncommon.
MacSkerffe [1408], Skerf [1417], MacSkerff [15 ii],
SCARFF [1620].
Skillicorne, a name peculiar to the Isle of Man,
is puzzling. It is most probably derived from a
local name now forgotten, beginning with the word