Isle of Norspa

Attention: This is a set of creative works fashioned by User:gwrengine.

It is of course based in concept at least around Sodor.

45 AD: Romans sight the island and location is recorded.
47 AD: Romans land on beach at what is now Treathmor.
48 AD: Year of bad luck and lack of supplies forces roman invaders to abandon island.
901 AD: Norse invaders bipassed England and landed in Norspa at several points along the coast.
910 AD: Tribal wars started between various settlements for overall control.
950 AD: 40-year war ends without any winners. Tribal leaders sign a treaty.
960 AD: Some tribes decided to return to their homeland.
965 AD: Cornish fishermen wander off course and encounter island.
970 AD: Cornish merchants sail across stretch of water and land on beach near Chyteylu.
990 AD: Several cornish settlements have sprung up across the island.
995 AD: Cornish encounter remaining Norse tribes. The Norse surrender their control.
1000 AD: Cornwall claim the island and name it 'Norspa' in honour of the Norse tribes.
1005 AD: Norse tribes are now fully integrated.
1010 AD: Cornwall declares Norspa to be an independent territory
1066 AD: Cornwall becomes part of England.
1070 AD: Norspa becomes annexed to the Kingdom of England.

Mickmouth - busy dock located at mouth of River Mick.
Treathmor - Cornish name for beach by the sea (as opposed to on a lake).
Pennkalgh - joke name in Cornish
Penforth - Cornish name for headland road
Alsgoon - Cornish name for meadow on cliff
the municipality of 'Bosnance' - Cornish name for dwelling in the valley
Alsforth - Cornish name for cliff road
Carregkelly - Cornish name for rocky grove
St. Michael - smallish village at the top of a mountain, named after the ancient chapel
Finchbury - so named due to the families of finches that used to live there
Ruthker - Cornish name for red fort
Ruthlys - Cornish name for red court
Bostowan - Cornish name for dwelling on a sandhill
Trecos - Cornish name for farm by a wood
Morbramm - Cornish name for fart of the sea, named becuase of the trapped winds around that part of coast

and so on...