08-14-2018, 09:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-15-2018, 11:47 AM by MonsGraupius.)
(08-14-2018, 07:45 PM)Robert Vermaat Wrote: Nice article.
I'm not sure if it confirms anything, because there could have been other places with that name. I've got a booklet lying around somewhere here with a nice theory about Patrick hailing from the West Country.
There's been a lot of daft ideas of where St.Patrick was born, but the older sources tell us it was Strathclyde at place called Nemthur.
We are told there are seven forts along the wall, we are given a list from the Ravenna Cosmography in which the sixth is "MedioNemeton". If that is assumed to be the combination of two names we have medio for Bal-muildy, Nemeton for Nemthur (the birthplace of St.Patrick at Old Kilpatrick) and subdobiadon for Dumbarton.
These are all very good fits. You are extremely unlikely to get three such good fits in the right places. Thus the names confirm the places and the names ALSo match Saint Patrick's birthplace.
Oh the grand oh Duke Suetonius, he had a Roman legion, he galloped rushed down to (a minor settlement called) Londinium then he galloped rushed back again. Londinium Bridge is falling down, falling down ... HOLD IT ... change of plans, we're leaving the bridge for Boudica and galloping rushing north.
