Cylipenus

From: tgpedersen
Message: 64805
Date: 2009-08-18

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Ah, where were we...
> >
> > Pliny, Naturalis Historia, Book IV. XIII.:
> > http://tinyurl.com/nmmg7j
> > '
> > 96 Incipit deinde clarior aperiri fama ab gente Inguaeonum, quae
> > est prima in Germania. Mons Saevo ibi, inmensus nec Ripaeis iugis
> > minor, inmanem ad Cimbrorum usque promunturium efficit sinum, qui
> > Codanus vocatur, refertus insulis, quarum clarissima est
> > Scatinavia, inconpertae magnitudinis, portionem tantum eius, quod
> > notum sit, Hillevionum gente quingentis incolente pagis: quare
> > alterum orbem terrarum eam appellant. nec minor est opinione
> > Aeningia.
> >
> > 97 quidam haec habitari ad Vistlam usque fluvium a Sarmatis,
> > Venedis, Sciris, Hirris tradunt, sinum Cylipenum vocari et in
> > ostio eius insulam Latrim, mox alterum sinum Lagnum, conterminum
> > Cimbris. promunturium Cimbrorum excurrens in maria longe
> > paeninsulam efficit, quae Tastris appellatur. XXIII inde insulae
> > Romanis armis cognitae. earum nobilissimae Burcana, Fabaria
> > nostris dicta a frugis multitudine sponte provenientis, item
> > Glaesaria a sucino militiae appellata, barbaris Austeravia,
> > praeterque Actania.'
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "From this point more definite information begins
> > to open up, beginning with the race of the Inguaeones,
> > the first that we come to in Germany. Here there
> > is an enormous mountain, the Saevo, as big as those
> > of the Ripaean range, which forms an enormous
> > bay reaching to the Cimbrian promontory; it is
> > named the Codanian Gulf, and is studded with islands.
> > The most famous of these is Scandinavia; its size
> > has not been ascertained, and so far as is known,
> > only part of it is inhabited, its natives being the
> > Hilleviones, who dwell in 500 villages, and call their
> > island a second world. Aeningia is thought to be
> > equally big. Some authorities report that these
> > regions as far as the river Vistula are inhabited by
> > the Sarmati, Venedi, Sciri and Hirri, and that there
> > is a gulf named Cylipenus, with the island of Latris
> > at its mouth, and then another gulf, that of Lagnus,
> > at which is the frontier of the Cimbri. The Cimbrian
> > promontory projects a long way into the sea, forming
> > a peninsula called Tastris. Then there are twenty-
> > three islands known to the armed forces of Rome ;
> > the most noteworthy of these are Burcana, called
> > by our people Bean Island from the quantity of wild
> > beans growing there, and the island which by the
> > soldiery is called Glass Island from its amber, but
> > by the barbarians Austeravia, and also Actania."
> >

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylfings
Wikipedia Cylipenus redirects here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_kiel
for whatever reason.

cf. Greek kolpos,
Engl. gulf (Skeat: formerly goulfe < Fr. golfe < Greek sideform kolphos),
Du. golf "wave; gulf".
(Note similar variation in Du. kolf "club", Eng. golf, and the liquid metathesis with 'club')


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