Eoforwic

The Old English name for the town was Eoforwic, which the Vikings mangled into Jorvik and Middle/Modern English then mangled into York.

Chester in the seventh century: surviving infrastructure Carla 2009

She was just starting to whirl when the first eggs fell on Eoforwic.

Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

Ealstan walked past as if the beggar didn't exist, a technique he'd had to perfect since coming to Eoforwic.

Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

Ealstan had never been to that warehouse, which lay on the outskirts of Eoforwic.

Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

Not the block of flats - not even her street, not yet - but the next best thing: the Forthwegian apothecary's shop whose proprietor had given her medicine for Ealstan even though, in those days, she'd not only been a Kaunian but looked like one, and who'd passed her spell on to the other Kaunians in Eoforwic.

Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

By the pinched and anxious looks on the faces of a lot of people in the square, hunger was already loose in Eoforwic.

Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

Now that Vanai dared go out onto the streets of Eoforwic once more, she wished she could find some books written in classical Kaunian.

Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

It stopped in Eoforwic to pick up more reinforcements, then slid on toward the fighting front.

Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

At nineteen, he was a match for any bookkeeper in Eoforwic.

Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

"I don't think there are as many interesting kinds around Eoforwic as there were back where we came from."

Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002