4 A STUDY ON THE BELG.E IN SOUTH BEIT ATS. 



Winchester, and thence we may infer that they would have first 

 taken the shore of Hampshire. Richard of Cirencester gives 

 "Ischalis" with Glastonbury, and seemingly Bath to the Hedui 

 so that they must have been of the Belgic kin. 



Now were these Belgae who won a footing in Britain of Cel- 

 tic or Teutonic blood ? I hold they were Celtic, or so far so, that 

 the Teutonic kin was soon lost in the Celtic. 



Richard of Cirencester says that they had sprang from the 

 "Belgae" and "Celts" (Gauls) of Belgium, and so to Ms 

 mind there were two races in Belgium, and by Belgse he must 

 mean the Teutonic, not Celtic Belgae, as I believe they were. 



But what means the name of Belgse ? Men of Belgium it 

 may be said, but I hold that the name Belgae gave the 

 name Belgium to the land, and was not taken from it. 



The land known to the Romans as Belgium, was, as it has 

 been in later times, one in which the two races, Celtic and 

 Teutonic met in a very rough unfriendly edge; the 

 line of the onpus?hing of the Teutonic . Belgae into the 

 Celts. When Csesar wrote that the Belgee differed from the 

 Celtfe (Gauls) in speech, customs, and laws, he most likely had 

 in his mind, the Teutonic kin, who were indeed the first and 

 true Belgte ; for the name Belga seems clearly to be a Celtic 

 one which he had heard among the Gauls. 



Belg, in Welch is an outbreaking, or ravaging, or raid ; and 

 Belgiad. or Belgwys, means outbreakers or ravagers, or plun- 

 derers ; a name by which the Celtae would hardly call themselves 

 if it had been true for them, but one by which they would very 

 likely call the Teutons, who were wont to worry them by raids. 

 But it does not seem that the British Belgee,o.s Csesar calls them, 

 since they had come over to Britain from the Belgae as a share 

 of Gaul, were the Belgse so called by the Gauls, that is to say 

 Teutons, but they were, I believe, of the Celtic stock of the two- 

 kinned Belgium. 



A French writer* says that the truest distinction that one can 

 * "Histoire de Belgigue," Tour n a. 



