Note 17 — Chapter I · SAXON AND WELSH TRADITIONS.

Ptolemy, bk. ii. c. 3. μεθ’ οὗς Κοριταυοὶ, ἐν οἷς πόλεις, λίνδον, ῥάγε· εἶτα, Κατυευχλανοὶ, ἐν οἷς πόλεις, σαλῆναι[al. σαλιοῦαι], οὐρολάνιον. Others have preferred the form Κοριτανοὶ, but the authority of the best manuscripts, not less than the analogy of the names Ingaevones, Iscaevones, Chamavi, Batavi, confirms the earlier reading. According to the Triads, these Coritavi (Coriniaidd) had migrated from a Teutonic marshland. Thorpe’s Lappenberg, i. 15. The word is thus in all probability derived from Hor, lutum, Horiht, lutosus; equivalent to the “aquosa Fresonum arva.” Vit. Sci. Sturm. Pertz. ii. 372. “Saxones, gentem oceani, in littoribus et paludibus inviis sitam.” Oros. vii. 32.