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Next to the Damnoni, but more toward the east near the Epidium Promontorium are the Epidi and next to these the Cerones; ...

Etymology

The name includes the Brittonic and Gaulish root epos, meaning horse (Delamarre pp.163-164). (Compare with primitive Irish ech). It may, perhaps, be related to the Horse-goddess Epona. More recent research ^[1] would make them Goidelic-speaking Scotti rather than Brythonic-speaking Britons. Cummins (1995) suggests that the tribal name may thus have been *Ecidii. The area they are presumed to have controlled became the heartland of the Early Medieval kingdom of Dalriada. The Brythonic languages (or Brittonic languages) form one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic language family. ... Gaulish is the name given to the Celtic language that was spoken in Gaul before the Vulgar Latin of the late Roman Empire became dominant in Roman Gaul. ... This article is about the Celtic goddess; for the video game character, see The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time characters. ... The Goidelic languages (also sometimes called the Gaelic languages or collectively Gaelic) are one of two major divisions of modern-day Insular Celtic languages (the other being the Brythonic languages). ... The Scotti: one of the oldest families in Europe The Scotti: her kingdom Dalriada ( today Argyl) out of Dal-Riata. ... The Brythonic languages (or Brittonic languages) form one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic language family. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... Dalriada or Dál Riata (as it was called in Ireland) was the kingdom of the Scotti, who spread from eastern Ulster to Argyll and eventually gave their name to Scotland. ...

Civitas

Ptolemy does not list a Πολεις for the Epidii, but the Ravenna Cosmography (RC 108.4) lists Rauatonium, assumed to be Southend, Kintyre. The Ravenna Cosmography was a 7th century map of the known world, named from the city of Ravenna in Italy where it was constructed. ...

References

• Cummins, W.A.,(1995) The Age of the Picts, Stroud:Alan Sutton.
• Delamarre, X. (2003). Dictionnaire de la Langue Gauloise (2nd ed.). Paris: Editions Errance. ISBN 2-287772-237-6
• Foster, Sally M. (2002), Picts, Gaels, and Scots (2nd ed.) London:B.T. Batsford/Historic Scotland. ISBN 0713488743
• Ptolemy, Geographia, II.ii
• The British Section of the Ravenna Cosmography (1949) Archaeologia 93 108.4

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Notes

1. ^  Foster (2002), pp9-10; Cummins (1995), page numbers wanting.

Further Reading

• Foster, Sally M., Picts, Gaels, and Scots, B.T. Batsford/Historic Scotland, 2002, ISBN 0713488743
• Campbell, Ewan, Saints and Sea-kings. The First Kingdom of the Scots, Canongate Books /Historic Scotland, 1999, ISBN 0862418747

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External links

• The circumnavigation of Scotland compares Ptolemy and the Ravenna Cosmography for the south west coast of Scotland

See also

• Britons
• Picts
• Scots