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And whether or not anyone spoke old English as well apparently. Give it up. It was not the border of anything. It ran through the middle of Bernicia , a British kingdom which became Anglicized c.700. There is no satisfactory solution to the origin of the name. It can't be Gaelic as the language of the area was British, then Saxon then Scots English. Everybody keeps repeating it was the historic border between England and Scotland, except it wasn't and isn't except for a short stretch of it's length, at a late period. It was not the border between anything else either.