Thursday, June 26, 2014

York - Puzzle

YORK – PUZZLE

The ancient site first bore the ancient native British name, Eburos, referring to the sacred Celtic yew (Ebor). The name was then amended by the Romans, on their invasion of the area, to Eboracum. When the Anglo-Saxons conquered England in the 500s, they misunderstood the meaning of the name, thinking that it alluded to ‘wild boar’ (in their language, Eofor), resulting in them changing the name to Eoforwic, meaning 'wild boar settlement'. On the Scandinavian settlement of the north of England in the late Middle Ages, the name first became Jorvik, and then the shortened ‘York’ (Simpson, 2009).

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ALCUIN OF YORK
BAILE HILL
BRIGANTES
BRITANNIA INFERIOR
CAPITAL OF THE NORTH
CHOCOLATE CITY
CONFECTIONERY MAKING
CONSTANTIUS I
EBORACUM
ERIC BLOODAXE
HADRIAN
JORVIK
KING EDRED
KING EDWIN
MAJOR / RIVER / PORT
MESOLITHIC PEOPLE
NORTHUMBRIA
REBELLION
RIVER FOSS
RIVER OUSE
ROMAN NINTH LEGION
SAINT / OSWALD
SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS
ST PETER'S SCHOOL
THE SHAMBLES
UNIVERSITY OF YORK
VIKING RULE
WALLED CITY
WOOL TRADING CENTRE
YORK MINSTER

When you’ve crossed through all the listed words in the above grid, you should find the following part of a quotation remaining.

“ ...  _ _  _ _ _ _ _  _ _ _ _ _  _ _ _  _ _ _ _ _ _ _  _ _ _ _ _  _ _  _ _ _ _  _ _ _ _ _ _ _  _ _ 
_ _  _ _ _ _  _ _ _ _ ... ”

For a more flexible form of this puzzle, please see: http://www.wordsearchfun.com/160703_York_wordsearch.html.


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