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•of Hencgest, ■would then be a warrior of full age. The coincidence 

 with the genealogy is so striking, so evident, that it occurred inde- 

 pendently to Dr. Simpson, and to myself ; and we must either suppose 

 that these are really the grandfather and great grandfather of the 

 conquerors of Britain, or that there were living at the same time, in 

 the Scandinavian lands, two Teutonic chiefs, a father and son, of the 

 same names as theirs. We know, however, of but one pair so named ; 

 and if we admit the identification of them with those named on this 

 monument, the following series of facts will appear to but a natural 

 sequence. 



1. The Picts (Dicaledones), confederate with the Saxons (Yectu- 

 riones), detached by Maximus from their alliance with the Scots, 

 and the last utterly routed, a. d. 369. 



2. Vortigern, holding under the Romans the sovereignty of the 

 Picts, and the husband of Severa, daughter of lEaximus, received a 

 colony of Saxons, a. d. 374. 



3. Yortigem, in his old age, embarrassed by the disaffection of the 

 Britons, the hostility of the Boman party, and the pretensions of 

 Ambrosius, received the aid of the grandchildren of the chieftain, who 

 "was the ally of his own people, sixty years before. 



Equally interesting, if not more so, are the inscriptions on a mo- 

 nument at Ballyhank, Co. Cork. On one side we have clearly the 

 legend, continued over the top, ah mo^joe (or &i) -poppci^epn, and 

 on the other, in much smaller scores, hiob^. 



I cannot help comparing the minute characters of this last with 

 the minute igxioc on the monument of Yitalis son of Torricus, and 

 suppose the one like the other to be the signature of the raiser of the 

 monument. 



I suppose the &nm to have the same sense as on other monuments, 

 i. e., nomen = titulus, and that the second word was niocjoe or mocj-M, 

 an m final and another initial represented by one, as on many Bunic 

 monuments. This seems to be a variant of the usual iiiucoi. y°N A ~ 

 ri^epn is clear, and the whole legend is in my view, " ICemorial of 

 daughter of Fortigern." 



Now this monument distinctly mentions a person who had the 

 same name as the unfortunate British king, but lived earlier, or the 

 king himself. I do not entertain the idea of a later namesake ; for 

 the memory of the historic king was so odious, that assuredly it would 

 not be given to another ; and though I admit the supposition of an 

 earlier prince of the name, I believe that the person here named can 

 be no other than he who introduced the Saxons. 



" The daughter of Fortigern." Fortigern had one daughter, whoso 

 name the author of the " Historia Britonum " suppresses, the mother 

 (by his incest with her) of S. Faustus, associated with him in his fate, 



6 Sec note (/) added in press. 



