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108 PHGNICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

called in the Gothic Eddas ‘“‘ Baumbury + and it is noteworthy that these dwarf tribes were of the race of “‘ The Blue [painted] Legs,”* that is, presumably, the primitive, painted Picts. It is probably a variant also of the name “Vimur”’ which occurs in the Eddas as the name of the river—the Upper Euphrates, the modern “ Murad ’which separated the Van territory from that of the Goths, and the ford at which was the scene of battles between the Goths and the Vans,* presumably the seat of Baombar and his tribe.

These Fomors, who opposed Part-olon on his landing in Ireland, are reported to have been ferocious ‘‘ demons,”’ and significantly they were led by an ogre and his Mother.4 This is clearly a memory of the Mother-Son joint rulership of Matriarchy, wherein the favourite son-paramour, who in the Eddas is called Baldr, was the champion of the Matriarch and her tribe for offensive and defensive purposes. This Fomor son-leader was called ‘““ The Footless,’* which is a designation of the Serpent, and there are references to the Fomors and their allies having Serpents and Dragons as their defenders.* Significantly also he is frequently called in the later records of the Fomors by the name of “ Baloy of the Evil Eye,” which equates with the title Baldr, the son-champion of the earlier Van Matriarch, and the “ Fal of the Fiery Stone ’’ weapon.

That these Fomors of the primitive horde of dark, dwarfish “ Khaldis’”’ or Bans, Vans or Fens, under the Matriarch Cesair, who first peopled Erin in the Stone Age, were and continued to be the real aborigines of Ireland, and were the ancestors of the later ‘‘ Fenes,”’ seems evidenced by the fact that they appear and reappear in all the accounts of the invasions subsequent to Part-olon’s invasion, as the resisters of the various intruding invaders. Their leader also

1 Volo-spa Edda Codex Regius, p. i, 1. 24.

* See previous references on p. 95.

8 Ed.N. 313. “ Farma-Tyr” or “ Farma of the Arrow,” a title of Wodan as the opponent of the Goths, may also be a dialectic variant of the same name “ Fomor.”

4K.H.T., 68, etc.

*‘* The Footless ’’—Cichol Gri cen Chos in text cited by R.H.L., 583. °R.H.L., 641.