Scandinavian influence on Old English varies with an important factor being that over 2,000 Scandinavian place names are still found mainly in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and the East Midlands. The earliest Middle English literature, from around 1200, does show Old Norse words being used, such as Orrmulum and Havelock the Dane. These words were well-established as they began to replace Anglo-Saxon terminology, such as "'take', for example, was niman in Old English; Old Norse taka is first recorded in the English form toc (‘took’) during the late 11th century, but by the end of the Middle English period take had completely taken over the function of niman in general English."