The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps

406 PHGENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

presumably is that, according to the later myth of the Quest for the Golden Fleece, he sailed away on the good ship Argos with Herakles and Jason and their company of heroes on board, and is not heard of again. This traditional voyage of adventure from Greece seems also significant ; and the inference in view of all the circumstances is that the British Chronicles are correct in recording that he came as Brutus or “ Briutus ” to Alban, assisted by ‘‘ Coronos Caineus,’’ and was the first king of the Britons in Britain.

The identity of the great Homeric hero Peirithoos with the “ Brutus ”’ or ‘‘ Briutus ”’ of the British and Irish Scot Chronicles will be more clearly seen when thus tabulated :—

Identity of the Homeric Hero Peivithoos with Brutus, the Briton.

Brutus or Briutus of British and Irish Scot Chronicles.

PEIRITHOOS of Homer,

Son of Ixton.

In Greece was a great warrior hero.

Thrust the shaggy wild folk from their caves in Pelion.

Drove them to the Aithikes in the Pindos mountains.

Conquered Epirus and Thessaly of North Greece,

Fought against King of Epirus with his friend Prince Theseus, son of Aigeus, and was confined by that king on the banks of the Acheron.

Came to Epirus, “‘ marriage-hunting,” was married on borders of Epirus, and in frescoes is represented seated next the daughters of King Pandureos.

Was aided in his fight against the shaggy folk by Coronos Caineus.

His son was joint ruler with son of Coronos Caineus. ;

The Parth-ini tribe on frontier of Epirus with town of Berat, and within Epirus, town of Phenice,

He, along with Coronos Caineus, disappears from and does not seem to have died in Greece.!

Son of Ascanius or Isicon.

Went to Greece and became great warrior hero.

Thrust the wild aborigines from their caves in Albion or “‘ Fel-inis.”

Drove them across the ‘‘ Icht sea’’ and to the Vindo and Pent-land Hills of the Picts or “ Ichts.”

Conquered King of Greece.

Fought against King of Greece with his friend, ‘‘the noble Greek prince Assaracus,” and had engagement on banks of the Akalon.

Married daughter of King of Epirus, Pandrasus.

Was aided in his fight against the wild tribes of Aquitain and Alban by Corineus. His son was joint ruler with son of Corineus.

The ‘‘Bart-on ” or “* Brit-on ” title of Brutus’ ruling tribe of Barat Pheenicians,

Brutus with Corineus appear in Alban or Britain.

This remarkable similarity between the traditions of the Homeric hero Peirithoos—the confederate of ( ovonos Caineus, the conqueror of aboriginal tribes, who went ‘‘ marriage-hunting ”’ to Epirus, slayed the ( alydon boar and accompanied the Phcenician Hercules on a sea-voyage of adventure for the Golden Fleece—and King Brutus or Briutus “‘ The Trojan ‘’—the confederate of (orineus, who married in Epirus, and sailed with a fleet of Brito-Phcenicians on a voyage of adventure past the Pillars of Hercules to the Gold-and Tin-producing island of Albion, including Caledonia, and, conquering the aboriginal tribes, colonized and civilized 1t—suggests that Homer had heard from Pheenician sailors of the great exploits of Brutus in Britain over three centuries before his day, and had woven them into the form we now find them in his immortal romance.

1 The legend of his death in captivity in Crete is only found in the later myth-mongering