36 A STUDY ON THE BELGyH IN SOUTH BRITAIN. 



went hence again. 



1. The Coraniaid. 



2. The Irish Picts. 



3. The Saxons. 



Now since we clearly understand that the Belgae were a tribe 

 who settled in Britain, and never went hence again, we must 

 see that they ought to have come into the Triad III., but they 

 are not in that Triad by the name of Belgje, nor are 

 there at all unless they were the Coraniaid, and I do not think 

 it unlikely, but believe, that they were so, and were Gaulish 

 Celts, and of the stock of the Walloons of our days. 

 But why did not the Britons call them " Belgoe?" 

 Because either they did not know the name which was given to 

 them by the Gauls, or else they were not of the race so called 

 by the Gauls ; the Teutonic race. 



Why did the Britons call them " Coraniaid?" 



I am told by a lady who lived for some years among the 

 Walloons, that they are very dwarfish folks, but no less clever. 



Strabo (L. iiii.) says of the Britons that they were taller than 

 the Gauls, and that he had himself seen at Eome very tall 

 young men (Britains) half a foot higher than the home born 

 Romans. 



So that the Britons might have been very ready to call 

 Walloons, unwelcome as they felt them in Britain, the Dwarfish, 

 set, Y Coraniaid." In Celtic Welsh " Cor " means a Dwarf, 

 and "Goran," Dwarfish, and "Coraniaid" would mean the 

 Dwarfish folks, or set. 



The Walloon speech is clearly, as is the French, a tongue 

 shapen by the grafting of Latin, on a Celtic stock of speech, 

 and not a Teutonic one, and there is nothing in the writings of 

 the Hornans to show that they found in the south of Britain in 

 Hants or Wilts or elsewhere a people whom they must 

 have marked as Teutonic Belgians, or such as they could not 

 take for Britains of the common Celtic stamp. The leaders 



