Insular Celtic inscribed stone found in Engliand
The Wroxeter Stone is the name given to a c. 460–75 AD inscribed stone unearthed in 1967 at Wroxeter, England (earlier the Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum). The stone is in the care of English Heritage, and was included in "A History of Ireland in 100 Objects" as the Cunorix Stone.
Inscription.
Its inscription is in an Insular Celtic language, identified by the Inscribed Stones Project at UCL as "partly-Latinized Primitive Irish", and comes from a period several decades after the collapse of Roman authority in Roman Britain, when Irish raiders had begun to make permanent settlements in South Wales and south-western Britain. The text reads: CVNORIX | MACVSM/A | QVICO[L]I[N]E, traditionally normalised as "Cunorix macus Maqui Coline" and translated as "Cunorīx son of Maqqos Colinī", where "Cunorīx" and "Maqqos Colinī" are personal names. "Cunorīx", literally meaning 'hound-king', is a well attested Celtic name, and may relate to the etymology of the name of Cynric of Wessex, a 6th-century king. "Maqui Coline" was read by Kenneth H. Jackson as a rendering of Primitive Irish *"Maqqī-Colinī" (genitive of *"Maqqos-Colinī"); this name literally means 'son of holly', but is an example of a type of name fashionable in early Irish that, despite looking like patronyms, were in fact given names. It is one of a number of such names that include words for trees and is attested in later Old Irish in the form "Macc-Cuilinn".
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