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178 PHGENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

of the Early Briton language is well seen in Part-olon’s spelling on the Newton Stone of several of the proper names, especially in his spelling of ‘‘ Gyaolowonie”’ for his ethnic title, which is written ‘‘ Gioln ’’ in his Ogam version for the information of the Pictish Celts, who spelt that name in their Chronicles of the ninth century A.pD. also “Galan ” or ‘‘Gulan.’’ It thus seems probable that the word used in Geoffrey’s old British manuscript text was “ Doros,” which he latinized into ‘‘ Trojan,” and that his description of the original language spoken by the Trojans under Brutus as “ Trojan or rough Greek’ was the original rough Doric language current amongst the Trojans about I107 B.C. And significantly this term ‘“‘ Doric” still survives to the present day as an appellation of the dialect of the Scots, with its distinctively broad vowel sounds.

Contemporary specimens of this ancient Trojan Doric, that is, the Early ‘“‘ British’’ Doric language and writing, fortunately still exist from the fourteenth to the twelfth centuries B.c. They were unearthed in considerable numbers by Schliemann in his excavations at Hissarlik, the site of the ancient Troy. The language in which this Trojan Doric is written shows that Homeric Greek, which in its archaisms differs so widely from the classic Greek of later times, was related to itt and presumably derived from it ; while the script in which this Trojan language is written bears a close resemblance to the early alphabetic letters found in Cyprus at Kitium or Citium and other sites of the Phcenicians and Khatti in that island. This ancient Trojan Doric script so closely resembled in many respects the script on Part-olon’s Newton Stone, that it supplied me with some indications for the decipherment of that inscription. And I find that this Trojan script and language was clearly akin to the language and writing of the later Aryan Phoenicians, and to the Runes of the Goths, and to the legends stamped on the pre-Roman British coins of the Catti, and was the parent of the language and writing of the present day in Britain—the so-called ‘‘ English " language and script.

Its affinity to the Runes of the Goths is especially

2 Prof. Sayce, S,L, 601, ete.