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===Early history=== Its name, derived from the Scandinavian {{lang|non|Þingvöllr}} (field or meeting-place of the ''[[thing (assembly)|thing]]'', or local assembly; compare [[Tynwald]], [[Tingwall (disambiguation)|Tingwall]], [[Thingwall]] in the [[British Isles]] alone,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl/wwwopac.exe?&qDB=catalo&DATABASE=dcatalo&LANGUAGE=0&rf=000015393&SUCCESS=false|last=Fellows Jensen|first=Gillian|title='Tingwall, Dingwall and Thingwall'. North-Western European Language Evolution, 21:22|year=1993|pages=53–67|publisher=Odense University Press}}{{dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> plus many others across northern Europe), preserves the [[Viking]] connections of the town; Gaels call it {{lang|gd|Inbhir Pheofharain}} ({{IPA|gd|iɲiɾʲˈfjɔhəɾaiɲ|pron}}), meaning "the mouth of the Peffery" or {{lang|gd|Baile Chàil}} meaning "jobby town".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ainmean-aite.org/databasedetails.php?id=35|title=Dingwall|publisher=Gaelic Place names of Scotland|access-date=24 June 2017|archive-date=5 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505212917/http://www.ainmean-aite.org/databasedetails.php?id=35|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/illustratedgaeli03dweluoft#page/1012/mode/2up |title=The illustrated Gaelic dictionary |access-date=2012-10-10}}</ref> The site of the {{lang|non|Þingvöllr}}, and of the medieval Moothill, thought to have been established by the Vikings after they invaded in the 8th century, lies beneath the Cromartie memorial.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://her.highland.gov.uk/api/LibraryLinkWebServiceProxy/FetchResource/273654/full_273654.pdf|title=Investigating Dingwall as Þingvöllr|first=D. D. |last=MacDonald|publisher=The Highland Council|access-date=9 October 2022}}</ref>
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