300 THE TYNE, IHE lOilT BUEN, THE SKEENE. 



The Northumbrian Tyne, in early British times, separated the 

 so-called Ottadeni on the north from the IBrigantes on the south. 

 Its name its not found in the Eoman Itinerary, but occurs in 

 Ptolemy's Geographia, thus, ' Ty nee flu Ostia.'' 



The following passage from Camden's Britannia, Yol. III., 

 p. 31, touching on the Tyne and the Ottadeni is of considerable 

 interest and value. 



"Next to the Brigantes we have in Ptolemy a people whose 

 name is variously spelt ; Ottalini, Ottadeni, and Ottadini, for 

 which, if i might presume, I should by an easy alteration sub- 

 stitute Ottatini, ^.d.^ Beyond or Above the river Tine. 



" Thus the name of the people will correspond with the situa- 

 tion of their country. Por they were settled beyond the Tine, 

 and the Britans to this day call the country in "Wales beyond 

 the river Conway, Uch Conwey, beyond the mountains, Uch 

 Mynyth, beyond the forest, TJch Coed, beyond the river Gerwey, 

 Uch Gwyrway. Nor can it be so much out of the way if for the 

 like reason they called this country beyond the Tine, Uch Tine, 

 whence the Eomans seem to have formed this name of Ottatini 

 with greater liberty of speech but more agreeable sound." 



Camden's alteration of the name is therefore very probably 

 correct. 



If the Ottatini were so called from their occupying the Uch- 

 Tine, or country beyond the Tine, this river must have had the 

 name of Tine or Tyne among the Celtic people on its banks, and 

 have been considered by them as a boundary, otherwise the Eo- 

 mans could not have coined the name Ottatini for the people on 

 its northern side, or Ptolemy have put down the name of the. 

 river as we find it in his Geographia. 



However, neither Tine nor Tyne^ neither Tain nor Ityna, nor 

 Tean, nor yet Tian^ in the sense of river or of water, is found in 

 any Welsh, Breton, Gaelic, or Cornish dictionary to which I have 

 access. See Ir. and Manx. 



In the Celtic dialects, we see in Corn, uch, prep, above, over ; 

 Wei. uch; Arm. (Breton) uch, us; uch being in French haut, 

 ileve ; Ir. os, uas, suas, soos ; Gael, os, suos, achd ; Manx heose, 

 seose ; Ger. hoch ; Engl, high ; Sansc. ut. 



