09-29-2010, 09:30 AM
Hello Chris,
Point well taken, and thanks for knowledgable imput. The insinuation came not from me only, but borrowed from something I read, from Snyder I think. "Cyn" and "Cym" are so similar that both might be taken as Celtic. The attachment "ric," like in Meuric or Mouric (from a famous Celtic family), can be found beyond Saxon and in Gothic-- such as Alaric or Theodoric-- where it means the same thing, alluding to power or high status, as in "reiks." A hundred years ago, the background of Cerdic and Cynric would never have been questioned, but I was borrowing from modern authors. And my point was intended to illustrate the possible, even probable, upheaval during the latter stages of Britonic power in post-Roman Britain.
Point well taken, and thanks for knowledgable imput. The insinuation came not from me only, but borrowed from something I read, from Snyder I think. "Cyn" and "Cym" are so similar that both might be taken as Celtic. The attachment "ric," like in Meuric or Mouric (from a famous Celtic family), can be found beyond Saxon and in Gothic-- such as Alaric or Theodoric-- where it means the same thing, alluding to power or high status, as in "reiks." A hundred years ago, the background of Cerdic and Cynric would never have been questioned, but I was borrowing from modern authors. And my point was intended to illustrate the possible, even probable, upheaval during the latter stages of Britonic power in post-Roman Britain.
Alan J. Campbell
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb