South gate

See “ New South gate .” South wark. A name which points to the Danish rule in England. The earliest London bridge of wood having been built in 1014, or two years before Canute seized upon the throne, this monarch took up his residence on the south bank of the Thames, and holding his Court there, styled it Sydrike , the Norse for “South Kingdom.” His succe ors also affected the Surrey side; as we know, Hard i can ute died of a surfeit at Lambeth. By the Anglo-Saxons under Edward the Confe or the Danish Sydrike was rendered Suthwerk , or South Fortification, whence we have derived the name in its present form.