 The obliteration of pre-Norse names is almost total and place names on the island are a mixture of Norse and later Gaelic and English influences.Port Askaig is from the Norse "ask-vík", meaning "ash tree bay" and the common suffix -bus is from the Norse "bólstaðr", meaning "farm".Gaelic names, or their anglicised versions such as Ardnave Point, from "Àird an Naoimh", "height of the saint" are very common.