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• Title: Telleyr, Anguen, Gulath, And the Life of St Kentigern.
• Author : Scottish Language
• Release Date : January 01, 2008
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 177 KB

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Amongst early sources for language in Scotland is a Latin Life of St Kentigern (whose death is dated in the Annales Cambriae to 612), written about 1180 by Jocelyn of Furness. His sources contain much information on Cumbric names in Strathclyde and Lothian, and were the subject of penetrating analysis by Kenneth Jackson, who said this on the religious community that Kentigern set up at Glasgow 'with two brothers Telleyr and Anguen'. Jackson stated that the name Telleyr 'is not recognisable, but Anguen with its gu must be a Brittonic name, and probably comes from a Brittonic written document, since if the source was oral Anuen would probably appear. The use of gu as a graphic device for the sound [w] is characteristic of Old Welsh, Cornish, and Breton, and the evidence of this and other passages in the Life of Kentigern suggests that the same practice was followed in written Cumbric; which is what would be expected' (Jackson 1958: 311). This paper discusses the names Telleyr and Anguen, as also Gulath, referring to a hill somewhere near Glasgow. First, Telleyr. It is obviously Celtic and (on the analogy of Welsh telediw 'handsome' or telyn 'harp') almost as obviously Brittonic, or Cumbric, so that a little thought may make it intelligible. Where is there a name resembling it in Welsh? The answer seems provided by Abertillery or Abertyleti (with stress on the penult), near Ebbw Vale in industrial Blaenau Gwent. Here aber- is 'confluence', though elsewhere 'estuary' (as with Aberdeen, on the Don). As for Tyleri, this is a personal name applied to the river Tillery, which is attested as Teleri in 1332. The form contains the elements t' 'your' plus the personal name Eleri (itself also used as a hydronym with the river Eleri of north Ceredigion). We know the name is old, since a beautiful woman called Teleri figures in the Mabinogion, in the eleventh-century tale of Culhwch and Olwen. She was the daughter of Peul and one of the 'gentle, golden-torqued ladies of this island', but is otherwise unknown (see Davies 207: 189).

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