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Archive for the ‘Britons’ Category
17 Mar
What’s in a name?
After discussing the linguistic changes and yet continuity in Dalriada yesterday, lets look at the names for the Britons and Picts in the Early Historic Period. Fraser points out that the usual explanation that Pict means ‘painted people’ doesn’t really hold up historically or linguistically.
What do you call an inhabitant of Britain in the early [...]
17 Feb
Peanfahel and Catraeth
Still reading Fraser’s From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795…. today I read through part of his discussion on the Pictish language and I really enjoyed it. He noted that linguists are now secure in their belief that the Pictish language is a dialect of British, in fact Fraser refers to it as ‘Pictish British’. [...]
9 Feb
FB: Din-Guaïroï /Bebbanburg/Bamburgh
You knew I couldn’t wait too long to do Bamburgh. Thanks to Bernard Cromwell it may be the best known Anglo-Saxon fortress site in England today anyway.
Din-Guaïroï
Din Guaïroï is the name given to Bamburgh in the Historia Brittonum, which then later tells us that it was renamed Bebbanburgh for Æthelfrith’s queen. The [...]
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