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It was probably in Edwin's time that Egglesbreth was 

 translated into Falkirk, for Tigbrethingham, which, was under 

 Durham in the 8th or 9th century, seems to be the same name. 

 (As Culterham, in the same list, is probably Kilcoulter, now 

 called Heriot, on the Cumbrian frontier on Gala Water. 

 Tigbrethingham seems to be the Saxon modification Brettingham, 

 with the Gaelic Tigh, House, superadded in use.) One would 

 much like to know if the name of Faw-kirk, the Painted 

 Church, referred to early ecclesiastical art ! The place was on 

 the frontier of the Picts, or Painted People, but on the British, 

 and subsequently Saxon, side of it. It is quite possible the 

 Saxon form of this name may be the oldest. 



The town of Falkirk seems to represent the Camelon on the 

 Roman wall, the "city with gates of brass" of the later 

 historians, which is the most probable scene of Arthur's last 

 battle. The present Camelon, called Kemlin, a village of nail- 

 makers, is a sort of continuation of Falkirk to the westward, and 

 between it and the Carron comes the tract of fields and farms 

 called the Carmuirs, a mile wide or more, but unmistakeably. 

 the "City on the Wall." Then comes the Carron, the "cam- 

 linn " or crooked pool. 



Arthur is buried in at least two different places in Brittany, 

 so one is obliged to consider only the general probabilities. The 

 story of the barge seems to be a late Scandinavian introduction. 

 The town called in Ptolemy's Roman geography, Lindum of 

 the Damnonii, is brought by Captain Thomas, who perhaps 

 went deeper into early Scotch geography than any else has done, 

 to Callendar, on the other side of Falkirk. While the name is 

 so much the same, being probably Lin-dun, the town on the 

 pool (as London itself probably is) that I am inclined to think it 

 is rather another name for the old Camelon on the Carron. A 

 district called Domnonee figures in Breton legend, and is 

 supposed, as a matter of course, to have been a part of Brittany. 

 It is perhaps more probably a tradition of the south-west of 

 England ; but the name of Dumno had been found in more than 

 one inscription in France. If the people of Dumnorix — whose 

 name must certainly have been a title — were called iEdui from 

 the present Autun, their territory must have been far inland, 

 between the sources of the Loire and those of the Rhone. And 

 the Roman geography of France is far less uncertain than that 

 of Britain. The Bretons do not use any name like Cymri, or 



