36 ANCIENT HISTORY OF GUERNSEY. 



A-DREN-i, and Rim-oul, the Ricn-ea of Pliny, and 

 the RiMEA of his commentators, mean each in a differ- 

 ent dialect, the island of the point or of the cape ; this 

 cape or point is la Hougue. 



* Sarnia and Sarnica, the f Sargia and Vesargia 

 of king Childebert, mean Guernsey and Serk, in com- 

 mon language, the great and lesser Isle of Rocks. 

 This island is also J Granonia, the isle of rocks, 

 mentioned in a notice of the empire, compiled under 

 Honorius. 



C^sARiA was a name bestowed on Jersey, the isle 

 of Augia, about the year 300, when one of the Caesars 

 had established himself on the adjacent coast. In cor- 

 rupt latin Augia (Ogie) q, neighbouring is\?ind, or jiear 

 the coast. The same name was applied to the famous 

 Augia Dives in the lake Constance, of which the 

 monks related such wonders ; || the greater number of 

 these islands was situated near rivers, and abounded in 

 fniits and rich pastures. I have discovered nothing 

 relative to the ancient bridge of which the knowing 

 ones of Jersey still relate such surprising stories. 



Our teeth are set On edge when we repeat the mo- 

 dern names Garnarei, Gherner^hui,% Gerneroo, Gran- 



The Rim oul of Childebert to the Rim eh of the Roman Naturalist. 

 HoLA is synonymous with island in Scotch and in Breton. Jersey, 

 for example, was formerly called Gris-ol or Gris-oul. A-dren-i, 

 whence the English name Alderney, rUe de la pointe (bas. Bret.). 



* Vide Bullet Mem. of the Celtic tongue, at the word Sarnia 

 Sarn~ic is the Breton diminutive for Sam (vide Baxt. Gl. brit.) ; by 

 the same rule that from Pil, a bason ou pelle is formed Pilic 

 (petit basin); the Breton appellation for that species of shelfish 

 called Flue in Guernsey, and Flion in Lower Normandy, the 

 Patella of Naturalists. 



f Ve-Sargia is precisely the same thing as Sarnica, Ve being the 

 diminutive of the Bretons, and even of the Latins, (whence Ve Sovis, 

 Ve Cars, &c.) In Norwegian Sark means a rock, hence the name 

 HuiT Sark, or High Serk. 



X Gran on is the plural in the Breton tongue of Cran, or Gran, a 

 large rock, whence Grauon-i, the isle of rocks: vide Campbell's 

 Political Survey of Great Britain. 



11 Du Cange at the word, and the Brit, and Cornish Glossaries. 



§ The Scottish Monks applied both particles Huia and Hola to 

 designate an Island, more particularly that of St. Columbia. 



