Crippel the Farn

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Capel-le-Ferne, just west of Folkestone. TH The name originally meant a chapel with ferns nearby. What is it that the new name invites us to cripple? The spelling of bombs as barms in the Eusa Story suggests that farn could be faun—maybe a relation to Eusa's stag.

(56, 60)