Note 12 — Chapter IX · Place-name Stories
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This reminds one of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Henvinus, whom he makes into dux Cornubiæ and father of Cunedagius or Cuneđa: see ii. 12, 15. Probably Geoffrey’s connecting such names as those of Cuneđa and Dyfnwal Moelmud (ii. 17) with Cornwall is due to the fact, that the name of the Dumnonia of the North had been forgotten long before that of the Dumnonia to be identified with Devon and Cornwall. ↑