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PRIOR ‘“ GIANT” PHGENICIANS IN BRITAIN 169

The “‘ giants,’ who are described in the Chronicles as opposing the invasion by Brutus and Corineus and their Briton followers, were obviously not the aborigines, but, as we shall find from other evidence, an earlier trading branch of the Aryan-Phcenicians—the Muru or Amuru or “‘ Amorite’ giants and erectors of the Stone Circles and “ giants’ tombs ''—who had been exploiting the tin and copper mines for many centuries and even a millennium or more before the arrival of Sylvius and his trading agents. But they had not systematically colonized the land or civilized the aborigines.!

The systematic civilization of Britain thus begins practically with Brutus. He occupied the country as far north as the Tweed, the Chronicles inform us, and he at once began the work of welding the various Pictish tribes into one nation under their Aryan rulers, through the bonds of a common Aryan language and the civilizing Aryan laws.

Brutus signalized his annexation of Alban by giving the latter a new name. He was, as we have seen, an Aryan of the Barat tribe, of which the Phcenicians were the chief representatives ; and he had just come from Epirus where, on its Macedonian border, was a colony of that tribe with a town called ‘‘ Phoenice,”’ bearing that tribal title as “* Parthini’’ or “‘ The Parths,”’ in series with Brutus’ own personal name of “ Peirithoos.’’ We have also seen, and shall further see, that the Phcenicians were in the habit of applying this tribal title to their new colonies. We are now told in the Chronicle that “‘ Brutus called the island [of Alban] after his own name ‘ Grit-ain’ and his companions ‘ Brit-ons.’ ”’ The original form of this name “ Brit-ain ’’ was, as we have seen, “ Barat-ana ”’ or “‘ Land of the Barats,’’? a form which

1 The references to Brutus’ associate Corineus as carrying the defeated “ giant” leader, and running with him on his shoulders, shows that the “ giant was no larger than himself.

* The usually conjectured derivation of “ Britain ’’ (despite the circumstantial traditional account of its origin in the Chronicles which is in keeping with the facts of the application of this name in Phoenician lands elsewhere) is that evolved by Sir J. Rhys. He derives the name “ Britain,” from the Welsh Brith and Braith, “ spotted, parti-coloured ’’ — a reference to the painting or tattooing of the body.” (R.C.B., 21 1). But, evidently not quite satisfied with this, he thinks it is derived from the Welsh yethyn, “ cloth,” and adds: “ It would appear that the word Brython and its congeners meant ‘clothed,’ or ‘ cloth-clad’ people. (1b., 212.)