Re: Celtic Jutland

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I'm sorry this portion of PLINI SECUNDI NATURALIS HISTORIAE

LIBRI IV was posted before, as you can see Pliny wrote the word
as Codanus. As he says it is called -vocatur-, we have no idea what
language he was referring to.

As I wrote before, the only Celt word that is remotely similar is the
welsh Cwt or Cytau, both of which can mean tail.

Skaw is the current term used for this narrow finger of land that
extents into the sea at the northern tip of denmark. Tor suggested
that Skaw may be a Dutch word. There is the Dutch word schaduwen,
meaning tail.

I don't know if skaw could be a corruption of or earlier form of
this?


PLINI SECUNDI NATURALIS HISTORIAE

LIBRI IV

[Chapter 13]


[Line 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.

Rendering
Now to clearly begin recounting [the] fame [of the] nations [of]
Inguaeonum, which are the closest of Germania. All the way up to
[the] promontory of Cimbrorum [the] facing tide has caused a bowl
shaped (or rounded rim shaped) curve, that [is] called Codanus
(theTail).


JS Crary