94 Notes on the Catrail. By Miss Russell. 



the wood of Oelydon ; Lincum must have been on the old main 

 road between Edinburgh and Carlisle. Lindocolinum was also 

 called Kaerliudcoit ; and curiously there is a town of this name 

 in the ancient list of cities attached to Nennius. Further, it 

 somewhat strengthens Mr Skene's theory, that the Mens Badon- 

 icus was the great stronghold of Buden Hill, near Linlithgow, 

 to observe that Urien does double duty in GeoflErey, first as king 

 of Mureif, that is, the region of the Eoman wall, and secondly 

 as Urbgennius of Bath. 



Again in the quaint proceedings drawn up to be sent to Eome, 

 about the independence or otherwise of Scotland, Arthur actually 

 appears as an English invader, and Llew or Loth, and his son 

 Medrawd, as patriotic Scotch Cymri, 



It is to be observed, that the name of the Catrail having been 

 preserved at the part of the line which is not a regular fortifica- 

 tion, affords a presumption that it originally applied to the whole 

 line, at least as far as the ditch extended, and was retained in 

 Teviotdale by there being a Cymric population on both sides. 

 Cat or Cad has here no doubt the secondary meaning of 

 ''defence" not of battle. Cadar is defence in modern 

 "Welsh ; Itail a good deal the same word in Welsh as in English. 

 G-ordon, to whom we owe "nearly all our earlier information 

 about the Catrail, found that name in use from the English 

 border to the Borthwick Water, and that thence northwards to 

 Galashiels the works were called the Picts' Work Ditch, which 

 is, beyond a doubt, the correct name, in the same sense as that 

 of the Mahratta Ditch of Calcutta. It is certain from Bede that 

 the Picts, whoever they were, occupied the south-east of Scot- 

 land, and the country up to the southern Eoman wall, after the 

 Eomans, or rather the legions, left the country. And I find 

 that part of that wall is known as the Picts' Wall. Taking Mr 

 Skene's dates, which are no doubt the most correct obtainable, 

 the legions left Britain for the last time in A.D. 409 ; Arthur, 

 who seems to have done a good deal to check Saxon invasion in 

 his own day, comes just about a century after that time, as the 

 last great battle of his recorded victories, that of Badon Hill, 

 was fought in 516 ; his final battle of Camlan in 537 ; and Edwin 

 of Deira and Bernicia, who seems to have obtained possession of 

 Edinburgh before his death, comes about a century after Arthur ; 

 he adopted Christianity in 627. 



It must be understood, I am taking Mr Skene's view, and re- 



