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

410 PH@NICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

account of his invasion preserved in the British Chronicles of Geoffrey,* which record the real name of “‘ Mandubracius ’’ as “* Androgeus ’’—that is also the form of his name preserved by Bede,* of which ‘* Mandubracius ”’ is evidently a Roman corruption—and the real circumstances of the flight of that ‘‘ Duke of Tri-Novantum,”’ and his subordination to Cassivellaunus, the brother of that duke’s father, King Lud of Tri-Novantum city, are therein fully recorded; also the fact that Cassivellannus had magnanimously gifted the city of Tri-Novantum or Lud-Dun (“ London ”) tothat renegade, “‘ the betrayer of his country,’’ who had aided Cesar with his own levies.

The remote prehistoric antiquity of the site of London, moreover, is evidenced by the numerous archeological remains found there, not only of the New Stone and Early Bronze Ages, but even of the Old Stone Age, thus indicating that it was already a Pictish settlement at the epoch when Brutus selected it for the site of his new capital of ‘* New Troy.”

The later name of “ London ”’ for “‘ New Troy ”’ appears to be a corruption of the late Briton name of “ Lud-Dun”’ or “‘ Lud’s Fort,” applied to it by Lud, the elder brother of Cassivellaunus, as recorded in the Chronicles; and “ Caer-Lud”’ or “‘ Lud’s Fort”’ is still the Welsh name for London. This later Briton name for it is seen to survive in the modern names “‘ Lud-gate Hill” and “‘ Lud-gate Circus,’’ which indicate that the old city or its citadel centred about St. Paul’s; and that a chief gate appears to have been at Ludgate Circus on the banks of the old river Flete, the modern “ Fleet,’’ which in medieval times was a considerable navigable creek bordered by extensive marshes.* That creek obvicusly derived its name from its use as the old harbour of the naval fleet of those days—the ‘‘long headed ships of 7v@-N@y” of the Norse Edda afore mentioned. That name “‘ Fleet ’’ isnow seen to be derived from the Eddic Gothic Fliota, ‘‘to float, flit or be fleet,’’1 and secondarily ffott, “a ship or fleet or number of ships,”5 and cognate with the Greek p/ozon, ‘‘ a hull or ship.” The corruption of “Lud-dun” into ‘‘London”’ appears to have been due to the later Romans, who called it ‘‘Londinium.’’ Yet it is noteworthy that the o in the modern city name is still pronounced with its old w sound.

London thus appears to have been founded as the capital city of the Brito-Pheenicians or Early Britons many centuries before Athens and the rise of historic Greece ; and three and a half centuries before the traditional foundation of Rome.

1G.C., 3, 20. 2B H.E., 1, 2: 3C.B., tr, 80. 4V.D., 16r. 3 7b., 161.

Fic. 76.—Archaic Hittite Sun Horse with Sun’s disc and (?) Wings. From seal found at Czsarea in Cappadocia. (After Chantre C.M.C. Fig. 141)

It is carved in serpentine and pierced behind for attachment. The object above the galloping horse, behind the disc, is supposed by M.C. to be a javelin.