THE EASTERN ORIGIN OP THE CELTS. 313 



of British story, tlie son of Meliodas, may possibly be Darda of 

 Mahalala.^®* The latter hero might also be the namer of the mistle- 

 toe, so intimately connected with the oaks of his son Darda. In 

 the British and Irish traditions equally, a migration along the 

 African coast of the Mediterranean is recorded, agreeing so far with 

 those of the Latins.''^^ 



In my last paper, I illustrated the wide dispersion of the family 

 of Grilead by well defined traces of its presence in Germany and 

 Scandinavia. Within the same Teutonic area the Zimri may be 

 found. The Istsevones may have received their name from Ishod. 

 Among them appear Sicambri and Gambrivii, Segodunum, Adrana, 

 Mediolanium, Ambiatinum, and the Dructeri. Strabo mentions 

 Melon as a leader of the Sicambri, and Segestes as chief of an allied 

 tribe.^''® The Hermiones furnish Setovia, the Sudeti mountains, 

 Setuacatum, the Mugilones, Meliodunum, Medoslanium, the Omanni, 

 Galsegia and the Teracotriae. The Chsetuori may have been a 

 German tribe of Katoorah, and the Diduni, descendants of Dedan 

 the son of Midian. Above the Hermiones and south of the Baltic, 

 between the Elbe and Sarmatia, we meet with ^stii, Setidava, 

 Susndata, Obotrites, the modern name Mecklenburg, and the Calu- 

 cones. The Teutones reproduce the Diduni and Dedan. The Cimbric 

 Chersonesus introduces us to Scandinavia and to another Amalchian 

 sea. The Wagri of Holstein seem to indicate that Ezer's family was 

 in the ascendant there; and the Sitones, with Sigtuna of Sweden, 

 that the descendants of Ishod had peopled that country.'" The 

 Danes themselves I believe to have been the posterity of Dedan. 

 The Asiatic origin of the Germans and Scandinavians is so un- 

 doubted as to require no comment. •'^^ The river Tanaquisl, whence 

 the latter are said to have come, bears a suspicious resemblance to 

 Tanaquil and Tangustela, Etruscan and British names.^®^ The giant 

 Ymir, who was the ancestor of the Teutonic family in their mytho- 



i*** Cox & Jones, Popular Romances of the Middle Ages. 



"5 Six Old English Chronicles, 101-2, 390 ; Keating, 110, &c. ; The Scottish Chronicle. 

 "6 Strab. vii. 1, 4. 



16T Latham's Ethnology of Europe, 202. The Cimbri and Jilstiones are said to have spoken. 

 Celtic. Buchanan, Hist. Scot., ii. 14. 



168 Mallet's Northern Antiquities, Bohn, 83, 516. The presence of Runic, Etruscan and Irish 

 Ogham characters in Arabia is the most natural thing in the world. Baldwin's Prehistoric- 

 Nations, 87. 



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