The pedigree of the English people : an argument, historical and scientific, on the formation and growth of the nation, tracing race-admixture in Britain from the earliest times, with especial reference to the incorporation of the Celtic aborigines / by Thomas Nicholas.

  • Nicholas, Thomas, 1820-1879.
Date:
1878
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Credit: The pedigree of the English people : an argument, historical and scientific, on the formation and growth of the nation, tracing race-admixture in Britain from the earliest times, with especial reference to the incorporation of the Celtic aborigines / by Thomas Nicholas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and bro-=hrog, land—whence he arrives at the meaning of mdtgenous, belonging to the country} There exists no ground whatever except fancy for such etymology as this.^ The plain account of the name is that it is a modification of Cimbri, just as Cimbri again, according to the testimony of Diodorus, is “a slight modification” of Cimmerii.'^ He says, “Those [Celts] towards the north and bordering upon Scythia are so exceeding fierce and cruel that, as ^ report goes, they eat men like the Britons who inhabit Iris. So fierce are they that by some they have been held to be the same with those who in ancient times overran all Asia and were then called Ciinmerii, but who are now through length of time, with a little alteration, named Civibri. Be the case as it may with respect to the Cimbric Chersonese, there can be no dispute as to whether the Celts of the continent are found in frequent contact with Teutons. As we have just shown, they are said by Appian to unite with the Teutons in the composition of the people called Nervii, and the name he gives them is Ctmbri, Paterculus mentions Cimbri and Teutones together as a “ German ” people.^ Ccesar informs us that they overran Gaul together, and were only put in check by the Belgm,^ ckc. That people thus intimately associated should to a great oxtent become mixed, and their languages in future times exhibit many materials in common-as we find them now to do—is all but unavoidable. (c.) nc Celtic trihee of ooeicot Britain-ttu Cymry, Bclgce, Llcegriam, Brythoii, Gaels, Piets, Scots. Having glanced at the earlier relations of the stocks which in conjunction have contributed the main materials ■ Confer Zeuss, Orammatica Cellica, 2nd Ed. pp. 206, 207. = Diod. Sic.y.2. 3 Lib. ii. 8, 12. *De Dell. Gall. ii. 4.