Some Scottish names, including Vacomagi, Boresti, Iudanbyrig, Aberlessic and Dubuice.

Scottish Language | January 1, 2007| | Copyright

AN EMENDATION TO PTOLEMY'S VACOMAGI

The 'Vacomagi' were a people of North Britain, whom Ptolemy called the Ouakomagoi, and who have been identified with the Ravenna Cosmography's Maromago (Rivet and Smith 1979: 484-5). Their location and name have been problematic. Watson (1926: 22) put them east of the Caledonians (hence on Speyside and in east Perthshire), and thought the form Celtic. But he doubted Sir John Rhys's explanation of them as 'men of the empty plains' (on the basis of Welsh gwag 'empty' and Common Celtic * magos). He described the first element as unknown, and ...

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