Ptolemy
This brings the inundation story nearer to the coast where Ptolemy in the second century located the Harbour of the Setantii, about the mouth of the river Ribble, and in their name we seem to have som
This brings the inundation story nearer to the coast where Ptolemy in the second century located the Harbour of the Setantii, about the mouth of the river Ribble, and in their name we seem to have som (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)
If we glance at Ptolemy's Geography written in the second century, we find in his account of the British Isles that he names more than fifty of our river mouths and estuaries, and that he divides thei (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)
Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx
- attestation: This brings the inundation story nearer to the coast where Ptolemy in the second century located the Harbour of the Setantii, about the mouth of the river Ribble, and in their name we seem to have som (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)
"This brings the inundation story nearer to the coast where Ptolemy in the second century located the Harbour of the Setantii, about the mouth of the river Ribble, and in their name we seem to have some sort of a historical basis for that of the drunken Seithennin ^."
- attribution: It is to be borne in mind that Ptolemy does not represent the Setantii as a people in his time: he only mentions a harbour called after the Setantii (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)
"It is to be borne in mind that Ptolemy does not represent the Setantii as a people in his time: he only mentions a harbour called after the Setantii."
- attestation: If we glance at Ptolemy's Geography written in the second century, we find in his account of the British Isles that he names more than fifty of our river mouths and estuaries, and that he divides thei (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)
"If we glance at Ptolemy's Geography written in the second century, we find in his account of the British Isles that he names more than fifty of our river mouths and estuaries, and that he divides their names almost equally into masculine and feminine."
- comparison: In either case, I may mention that Welsh writers have sometimes thought — and they are probably right — that we have a closely related word in the name of Ptolemy's Coritani or Corifavi (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)
"In either case, I may mention that Welsh writers have sometimes thought — and they are probably right — that we have a closely related word in the name of Ptolemy's Coritani or Corifavi."