Duddingston is a former village in the east of Edinburgh, Scotland, next to Holyrood Park.Origins and etymologyThe estate wherein Duddingston Village now lies was first recorded in lands granted to the Abbot of Kelso Abbey by David I of Scotland between 1136–47, and is described as stretching from the Crag (from Craggenmarf, an old name for Arthur's Seat) to the Magdalene Bridge. This land grant included the settlement known by the name of Treverlen or Traverlin, in the western part of it; this being the oldest known name of the village and estates that eventually became known as Duddingston.There are several possibilities exist for the etymology of "Treverlen". "tref + gwr + lên" meaning "place of the learned man" "tref + y + glyn" with lenition following the definite article, meaning "place of the learned women" "tre + war + lyn" meaning "the farm at or on the loch" "traefor llyn" meaning "settlement by the lake (loch) of reeds and/or rushes" All these names originate in the Celtic Brythonic languages, which pre-date the use of the Gaelic or Saxon tongues in Scotland, suggesting that they may go back to the time of some of the earliest settlements on Arthur's Seat. The last two names, in particular, fit well as a possible name for the Celtic crannog settlement which stood in the southernmost corner of Duddingston Loch.