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in their alphabets, Gr or Gu are substituted. Hence wane in Gothic 

 was, by the former, changed into guerre ; warden into guarden, now 

 gardien; Wales, Gaidles ; Cornwales (^Cornwall) Cornn-Gaules. 

 'On the other hand, the G of the French is in Gothic changed into 

 W; hence Guarden is expressed by warden; guerre by warre; 

 Gaulles, now pays de Galles, Wales. 



The only clue to information, wliich can be expected from savage 

 nations in those ages of mental darkness, appears in those denomi- 

 nations, which they bestowed upon each other ; and these will 

 enable us to trace those tribes in their emigrations. The Goths or 

 Germans, as I have observed, substituting W for G, applied the 

 name of Welsh to tliose Gauls, who anciently occupied the north 

 west part of Italy, which was then denominated Gallia cisalpina, 

 and since Lombardy. And this denomination, originating from this 

 part, was afterward transferred to the whole of Italy, which was 

 called Welshland, and its inhabitants Welshers."^^- This name was 

 also extended to those Gauls, who lived upon the west banks of the 

 Rhine. In the Netherlands, which were formerly inhabited by the 

 BelgcB, the French language was called Wals, and the inhabitants 

 of Henault and Artois, Wallen or Wallons, and their provinces 

 Walsland f^- words importing Gals, Gallen, Gallons or Gaids. 



According to ancient Saxon works, this people, occupying the 

 Cimbric Chersonesus, the present North and South Jutland, and 

 being separated from the Britons by the North sea, called this W. 

 people Welsh, and, sometimes, to distinguish them from other 

 Gallish or Wallish tribes, Brit-Welsh, contracted from Rrittaint- 

 Welsh, and the island was denominated Brit-Welshland. The 

 Saxons, having afterward made a conquest of this island, and driven 



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58. Restitution of decayed intelligence by Richard Verstegan, p. 152. 



59. Verstegan, p. 1.53. 



