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180 PHGNICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

have been a native of Ruthwellin Dumfries in Scotland, from the signed Runic inscription of ‘‘Cadmon” on the beautiful votive stone Cross there, containing extracts from the “Dream of the Rood,” a poem which is usually ascribed to him. And although he specially wrote for his AngloSaxon masters, he wrote in an idiom so different from the standard Anglo-Saxon of the South, and so similar to the British Gothic of the Eddas, and used idioms and sentences so similar to those of the Gothic Eddas that his language has to be distinguished as ‘‘Northumbrian.” Beowulf’s reputed poem also, which is only known from a paraphrase by a ‘‘ Northumbrian ” bard of the eighth century, relates exploits amongst the Danes and Geats (or Goths) and the Goths of Sweden and the Catte-gat (or ‘‘ Gate of the Catti” or Goths) which presumes Gothic influence in his so-called “Anglo-Saxon.” And Cynewulf of the eighth century betrays his Gothic influence by signing his MS. in Runic (i.e., Gothic) writing—of which significantly absolutely no trace has ever been found on any ancient monument in Germany, although Runic inscriptions from at least about the fourth and fifth centuries onwards (that is before the “AngloSaxon ”’ invasion, the Angles not arriving in Britain till the middle of the sixth century)-are common in the North of England and in Scotland, as well as in Scandinavia and Denmark, all Gothic lands. Indeed the name ‘‘ Cedmon”’ which is spelt ‘‘ Kadmon” or “‘Cadmon”’ on the Ruthwell Cross, and occurring in the latter form as the name of a witness to a Bucks charter of 948 A.D.,1 is seen to mean obviously ‘Man of the Cad or Kad,” that is, as we have seen, an ordinary title of the Hitto-Phcenicians, and in series with the Briton “ Cad-wallon,’ &c. And Dumfries is on the border of the ‘‘ Gad-eni”’ tribe area of Ptolemy.

It is thus evident that the so-called “Celtic’’ and “ Brythonic Celtic ” languages in the British Isles are merely provincial dialects derived from the Aryan Trojan Doric, introduced by King Brutus-the-Trojan about 1103 B.C. ; and that the standard official and developed Aryan language

1 Birch Cayt.Savon. 2.30, cited by Gaskin Cedmon 1902, 10; and cp. Hewison Runic Roods 1914.61,