Note 35 — THE LEGEND OF ST. GEORGE.

In some versions of this poem this ‘Troyan’ is changed into ‘India.’ Probably there is here a reference to the theory that the Turks and Troyans were the same people. Knolles, in the opening chapter of his ‘General Historie of the Turkes,’ says, ‘Some, after the manner of most nations, derive them from the Troians, led thereunto by the affinity of the words Turci and Teucri; supposing—but with what probability I know not—the word Turci or Turks to have been made of the corruption of the word Teucri, the common name of the Trojans; as also for that the Turks have of long most inhabited the lesser Asia, wherein the antient and most famous city of Troy sometime stood.’—Edit. Back