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PRIOR PHGNICIANS IN BRITAIN 163

Chronicle of the Alban Duan of 1070 A.D., which was composed presumably for the coronation of the Scottish king Malcolm III., whose queen was the famous Margaret, and who was crowned in that year and to whom it was addressed. This poem, however, represents the intruder under the title of ““ Alban ”’ as the son of Ascanius or “ Isicon ’’ instead of the grandson of neas by his Latin wife, which latter tradition appears to be correct. It is also noteworthy that the form of the name in this Scottish poem for Brutus as ‘ Briutus ’’ approximates more closely the Homeric “ Peiri‘hoos ’ and the Latin “ Pirithous.’ The poem says :“What was the first known invasion Which grabbed the land of Alban ?

Alban grabbed it with many of his seed,

He, the elder son of Isicon [Ascanius] :

Brother was he of Briutwus, yet scarce a brother, He named Alba of Boats.

But banish’d was this big brother By Briutus across the ‘ Sea of Icht,’

Briutus grabbed Albain for his ain As far as wooded Fotudain [Tweed ?].’?

The precise relationship of Brutus to his “ big brother, yet scarce a brother,” Silvius Alba, the “‘ Alban ”’ of this Scottish poem, whom he evicted from Alban, is seen in this genealogical Table, which I have compiled from the Chronicles of Geoffrey and Nennius :—

ZEneas Ascanius (“ Isicon ” Sylvius or Silvius 4ineas, surnamed or Iulus), Posthumus, son by Creusa son by Lavinia, daughter of | Latinus Sylvius Sylvius Alba, | ancestor of Romulus Brutus 1See S.C.P., 57, for text and for a- freer translation than mine.

“ Fotudain ” equates with the Ofadiui tribe of Ptolemy who oceupied the S.E. of Scotland between the Tweed and Forth, South of the ‘‘ Gad-eni’’ tribe.