The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps

199 PHGNICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

become relatively insignificant, through being swamped by the swarms of later new towns founded on new lines of traffic to suit new industries, iron, coal and other manufactures, but some of them still retain their ancient importance under their old name, as Burton-on-Trent, Barton-onHumber, Dun-barton, Part-ick and Perth, whilst others, such as Barden (Norwich) have changed their names, or, as “ Bristol,” (formerly Caer Brito) are now scarcely recognizable.

We also discover that the ‘“‘Cymry” (pronounced Cumrt) or Cumbers of Wales, Cumberland, and the North Cumbre of Strath-Clyde appear to derive their name from the alternative tribal epithet of the Phcenicians, namely, “ Sumer.’ This latter was a term occasionally used by the early ruling race in Babylonia, the ‘‘ Sumerians ’’ of modern Assyriologists, and who, I find, were Phcenicians.

This identity of the Cymry or Cumbers with the ‘‘ Sumers,”’ suggested by my discovery in various ancient mining centres in Britain and especially in the land of the Cymry or Cumbers of several scribings in the old “ Sumerian ” script of Babylonia (see later), is confirmed by finding that ‘“‘ Sumerian ”’ is the basis of the British or “‘ English ’ language, of which we shall find many further instances incidentally, as we proceed. It is also confirmed by the Welsh Cymry traditional account of the arrival of King Brut or “ Prydain’’ (as his name is dialectically spelt in Welsh) in Britain, as found in the Welsh Triads, which confirm from an altogether independent source the tradition preserved in the Chronicles of Nennius and Geoffrey.

The First Triad! says: ‘“‘ Three names have been given to the Isle of Britain from the beginning . . . ‘ Clas Merddin (literally, The Digging of the Mers or Mor-ites ?] and afterwards Fel Ynys. When it was put under government by Prydain, son of Aedd-the-Great, it was called ‘ Inis Prydain,’ and there was no tribute paid to any but to the race of the Cymry, because they first possessed [or invaded] it.”

The Sixth Triad, supplementing this one, says: ‘‘ First Hu Gadarn, originally conducted the nation of the Cymry into the Isle of Britain. They came from the Summer Country, which is called Deffro-Bani, and it was over the hazy sea?

+ Welsh Triads (Trioedd Ynys Prydain) in Myvyrian Archeology of Wales, vols. 2 and 3.

* ““ Hazy or Misty Sea ”’ is a recognized poetic name for the Mediterranean used by Homer (J/iad, 23, 743).