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FOUNDING OF LONDON ABOUT 1100 B.C, 407

FounDInG oF Lonpon as ‘‘ TrrNovant‘' ox ‘“ New Troy” BY KiNG BRrvutus-THE-TROJAN, ABOUT 1100 B.C.

It is not surprising that King Brutus-the-Trojan should have named his new city on the Thames in the new land of his adoption ‘‘ New Troy,” especially as the city on the old river Thyamis in Epirus, whence he came was also named “ Troy.” The naming of this new “ Troy " in Epirus by Helenus, the fugitive son of King Priam of Troy, is described by Ovid and Virgil. The latter says? :—

“ Skirting Epirus’ coast, Chaonia’s‘ port 2 = That Helenus, Priam’s son o’er Greeks

Bore sway, succeeding to the throne and bed

Of Pyrrhus® . . . Pyrrhus dead,

Part of his realm to Helenus demis’d,

Who Chaonia’s plain by title new

“Troy” Chaon called, and built him walls

And vamparis on the steep whose names vemind Of Pergamus and Troy. . . . In pensive thought I traced the town, the miniature of Troy,

Its yellow shrunken stream, its fort surnamed

* Of Pergamus.’ ”

This clearly shows that the Trojan colonists were in the habit of consciously and deliberately bestowing their treasured old Trojan names upon their new colonies, with the avowed object of “reminding” them of the old homeland of their Aryan ancestors. Besides this one, another new Troy is reported to have been founded by Aineas in the Tiber Valley® and still another by a Trojan colony near Memphis in Egypt.?7 And even the famous Troy of the Homeric epic appears to have been called ‘‘ New Troy ” in distinction presumably to the Old Troy underlying that site.§ This old Trojan habit of naming some of their chief new colonial’ cities is analogous to that by which in modern times New Vork derived its name,

The name “ Tri-Novantum ”’ could easily, as Geoffrey states, be “a corruption of the original word,’ for the city-name which was imposed by Brutus. That original word, which Geoffrey does not supply, may be presumed to have approximated the Gothic “ Lyoia-Ny”’ or “* Troia-

‘It is named “Ilium ” on later maps (see D.A.A., No. 11), that is the Latin spelling of Ilicn Homer’s usual title for “ Troy.”

* Metamorphoses, 13, 721. * Eneid, 3. 295, etc.

* The N.E, district of Epirus bordered by the Thyamis river. Virgil, by his use of the district name “*Chaon”* and “ Xanthus” for the river, which I have rendered “ yellow,”” presumably locates the city on the latter river and thus identifies this Troy with ‘' Pheenice ” there.

+ . ae was son of Achilles, and consort of Andromache, wife of Hector, who was carried off y2 ILles,

* Livy, 1, 1, 3. *S,, 808; 17, 1, 34.

* Troy ”’ or Troia was named after Tros, the founder of the old city. New York was first. named New Amsterdam (and thus in series with New Troy) when founded by the Dutch in 1624 ; but when seized in 1664 by the British, it was granted by Charles II. to his brother the Duke of York, after whom it received its present name; and that name was derived from the old ducal city state in Britain, which Briton city, in its turn, as recorded by Geoffrey's Chronicle, was name after a descendant of Brutus,