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Title: Some Scottish Names, Including Vacomagi, Boresti, Iudanbyrig, Aberlessic and Dubuice.
Author : Scottish Language
Release Date : January 01, 2007
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
Pages : * pages
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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 the second as the plural of magos 'great'. Jackson (1955a: 136) was more sceptical. He said 'Vacomagi' could not 'be said to be Celtic with any confidence', and described the presence of this and other possibly non-Celtic tribe-names in the Pictish heartland as 'remarkable'. Dr Henderson (1967:16, 18) places the 'Vacomagi' in Strathmore, south of the Grampians.