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A lighter note
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(The Old Celtic name, possibly meaning “cleanse”, may have derived from the [[Indo-European]] ''clou'', and was also possibly the name of a river goddess. The [[Roman]] historian [[Tacitus]] refers to it as the ''Clota''. It became the Gaelic ''Clutha''. Today it is the ''Cluaidh''. The word “Firth” used by the Scots to describe an estuary or arm of the sea derives from the Old Norse. It has the same root as “fiord”.}
 
(The Old Celtic name, possibly meaning “cleanse”, may have derived from the [[Indo-European]] ''clou'', and was also possibly the name of a river goddess. The [[Roman]] historian [[Tacitus]] refers to it as the ''Clota''. It became the Gaelic ''Clutha''. Today it is the ''Cluaidh''. The word “Firth” used by the Scots to describe an estuary or arm of the sea derives from the Old Norse. It has the same root as “fiord”.}
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And on a lighter note.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZX0h4X7s1c  The places mentioned seem to refer to the "Firth" as much as the "River".
     
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