Harrow
Harrow may refer to:
People
Places
- Harrow, London formerly in Middlesex
- Harrow (UK Parliament constituency)
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Harrow (UK Parliament constituency)
Harrow was a parliamentary constituency in Middlesex (now part of Greater London). It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1945 general election.
Boundaries
1918-1945: The Urban Districts of Harrow on the Hill, Greenford, Hanwell, Wealdstone, and Wembley.
Members of Parliament
Election results
Elections in the 1900s
Elections in the 1920s
References
Hörgr
A hörgr (Old Norse, plural hörgar) or hearg (Old English) was a type altar or cult site, possibly consisting of a heap of stones, used in Norse paganism, as opposed to a roofed hall used as a temple (hof).
The Old Norse term is attested in both the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda, in Icelandic sagas, skaldic poetry, its Old English cognate in Beowulf. The word is also reflected in various place names (in English placenames as harrow), often in connection with Germanic deities.
Old Norse hǫrgr "altar, sanctuary", Old English hearg "holy grove; temple, idol".Old High German harug continue a Proto-Germanic *harugaz, possibly cognate with Insular Celtic carrac "cliff".
Old Norse tradition
Literary
The term hörgr is used three times in poems collected in the Poetic Edda. In a stanza early in the poem Völuspá, the völva says that early in the mythological timeline, the gods met together at the location of Iðavöllr and constructed a hörgr and a hof (Henry Adams Bellows and Ursula Dronke here gloss hörgr as "temples"):
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