312 THE EASTERN ORIGIN OP THE CELTS. 



In the Welsh legends, Emrys or Ambrosius was a famous name.^^' 

 It was this Aurelius Ambrosius who, with the aid of the magician, 

 Ambrose Merlin, a fatherless personage, set np the megalithic struc- 

 ture called Stonehenge. The mother of Ambrose Merlin was a 

 daughter of the king of Dimetia.^^^ Among the mythical British 

 sovereigns, many seem to claim kindred with Zimran and his de- 

 scendants. Besides Ambrosius, we meet with Kimarus, who is 

 called the son of Sisilius, as Amphiaraus is termed the son of Oicles. 

 The British and Greek names must equally denote Eshcol, the uncle 

 of Zimran. The brother and successor of Kimarus was Danius, who 

 may easily have been Dedan, the son of Jokshan, the brother of 

 Zimran. Tangustela, the concubine of Danius. reminds us of the 

 Etruscan Tanaquil or Caia Csecilia, the wife of a Tarquin. But 

 before the time of Kimarus appears Maddan, a Midian-like name. 

 He was the father of Mempricius and Malim, who respectively recall 

 Mamre and Mahalah. Among the children of Ebi-aucus (an Ophrab), 

 the son of Mempricius, we find such names as Sisilius, Kambreda, 

 Stadud, Assarach, Edra, Egron, Methahel, Gaul, Gloigni and Darden. 

 This may indicate simply the Zimrite origin of those among whom 

 the corresponding names appear.^^" According to some ancient his- 

 torians, the Cymri of Wales were the descendants of Briotan Maol, 

 whose language was the original Irish.^^"- Maol is the important 

 part of this name, and probably denotes Mahalah. He, as the Celtic 

 Mars, should be the primitive MUe, the Latin Miles, a soldier. 

 Eionn Macumhal, perhaps the same as Macuill, was the first to 

 embody the famous Irish militia. His daughter, Sammir, bore a 

 Zimrite name.^®^ But in Malachi, who won from the Dane Tomor 

 the collar of gold, we discover, as I have already indicated, Manlius 

 Torquatus, and in the collar the necklace of Eriphyle.^^^ Tristram 



163 Davies' Celtic Researches, 191. Bryant, in his Analysis v. 201, deals with the subject of 

 Amber stones, which he finds in many parts of the world, and with the word Amber as denoting 

 sacredness, which he finds in Greece and Egypt. 



169 Six Old English Chronicles, 192. 



160 lb. 132, 111, 113. , . 



161 Keating's General History of Ireland, 129. 



162 lb. 284, 297. 



Besides Tomor the Dane, from whom Malachi won the collar, who bears a name analagons to 

 Cimber, we find in Irish history a Danish Earl of Tomair, a Turgesius and three other Danes 

 Amelanus or Amhlaoib, Cyraeus and Imorus, with a Humphrey, recalling the Kempery men of 

 old English traditions : Keating, 425, 413, 434, &c. The Danes are called Gauls : Keating, 413- 



163 Keating, 475. 



