Re: That old Odin scenario ...

At 3:23:36 AM on Thursday, June 25, 2009, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "bmscotttg" <BMScott@...>
> wrote:

>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen"
>> <tgpedersen@> wrote:

[...]

>>> So the Nymptons and Nymets are the sole surviving Celtic
>>> place names in Devon.

>> Obviously not: Morchard is in Devon.

> On the south-eastern edge.

Na, und?

>> And there are others:
>> <Dawlish> is from Prim. We. *duB + *gles 'black stream',
>> <Dart> (river-name) is from PrW *derw 'an oak-tree' and a
>> river-name suffix *ïnt,

> That would be my old friend *Dran,W-ant-
> We don't agree on that one, as you know.

>> the river-name <Exe> is from Brit. <Isca:>,
>> and I could doubtless find at least a few more.

> Go ahead.

The river Lemon, either from Brit. *lem-, *lim- 'an elm
tree' or from Brit. *lim- 'mud, marsh'. I'm not about to
waste my time looking further: the point's made.

>>> Perhaps one should count in the fact that Devon was not
>>> Celtic, but Belgic:

>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgae

>> You have a strange definition of 'fact'.

> You disagree, because?

The source that you offer does not establish as a *fact*
that Devon was Belgic. It merely says:

Based on the development of imagery on coins, it seems
likely that, by the time of the Roman conquest, some of
the tribes of south-eastern Britain were Belgic or were
ruled by a Belgic aristocracy.

For that matter, it does not establish that the Belgae were
not Celtic.

Brian