Piotr wrote
> If the name of the Volcae (home address: Gallia Narbonensis) is
> now found on the map from Walachia (southern Romania) to Wales,
Wales comes from the Anglo-Saxon "wealh" meaning a foreigner. The
Welsh called themselves cymry, from the Brythonic combrogi meaning
"companions" (fellow countrymen), and this seems to have been a name
pioneered at a specific period in British Dark Age history - before 450
AD it wasn't used, after 550 it was (evidence perhaps of King Arthur's
"companions" the knights of the round table?).
Wales is thus linked to the word Walloon, used in Belgium for the
French speaking population (also meaning foreigners). It was a bit
rude of us early Anglo-Germans to arrive in someone else's country and
call them the foreigners!
John