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BARAT PHGNICIAN NAMES IN BRITAIN | tot

that they came to the Isle of Britain and to Liydaw {Lud-dun ?}? where they continued.”

The different dialectic and phonetic spelling of the same names, Prut, Prydain, Briton and Britain we have already seen; and especially the widely-varied ways in which the Anglo-Saxons spelt “‘ Britain’ and “ Briton,” which accounts for a number of the present variations in spelling the “Barat "’ element in the place-names in question.

Starting from Brutus’ or Barat’s capital of ‘“ New Troy or London,” we find Barat or Brit-on names of early Briton settlements radiating throughout the various home counties and the South of England and the Midlands. And significantly they often possess early Bronze Age and “ ancient village’ remains, and are largely found on the pre-Roman arterial roads, many of which, having been repaired and used by the Romans, are now called ‘“‘ Roman” roads. Proceeding westwards and to the south we find the following? :—

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In Kent: Bred-hurst, near Kits’ Coty dolmen and the “Roman ”’ Watling Street. Bord-en, on Watling Street, near Milton. Britten-den, adjoining Newenden, at ancient mouth of the Rother (1, 322)*

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1“ T}ydaw ”’ is usually conjectured to mean “‘ Sea-coast ” and thought by Celtic scholars to be Armorica in Brittany (Lobineau, Histoire de Bretagne, 5, 6) ; but it now appears to be probably Lud-dun or “ London.”

2 Here the Welsh Triads record that “‘ Prydain,”’ 7.e., the Cymric spelling of Brutus or Barat as “‘ Brit-on,” gave his name to Britain and that he was of the race of the Cymry. The Sixth Triad, in supplementing this information, gives Prydain’s personal name as “‘ Hu-Gad-arn,”’ 1.é., ‘“ Hu-the-Gad or Phoenician,” and the affix 4yn is obviously “‘ Aryan,” and cognate with the Cymric Avan, “‘ high,” the Cornish Avhu, “‘ to command,” and the IrishScot Aire, ‘a chief or prince,’ literally, “‘ exalted one,’’ which also, as seen later, is the literal meaning of ‘“‘ Aryan’”’ in the Indo-Persian languages. The land from which he came, ‘“‘ Deffyo-Bani,” seems to be perhaps the Welsh contracted corruption of the compound name “ Epirus-Pandosia,” i.e., the very place in Greece whence, we have seen, Brutus or Peirithoos sailed to Britain—the prefixed D may have been a mistake of an earlier copyist, though D is sometimes introduced in Welsh spelling, thus “ Gwydion ” is the Welsh spelling of ‘‘ Gawain’ of the British Arthur legend. We now see why the elder Gildas called the whole of Britain ‘“Cambye”’ or‘‘ The Land of the Cambers, Cumbers, or Cymry,”’ 1.e., Sumers.

2 The numbers enclosed within brackets refer to the pages in Camden’s Britannia, 2nd ed. Gough.

‘See previous note.