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To: Sabertooth
They called themselves by many names according to their gods and their totum animals. They were known among themselves as the Catuvallani (the people of the cat), the Damnoni, the Epidii (the people of the horse), the Veniconea, the Novantae, the Caerini (the sheep folk), the Smertae (the smeared people) and many other names which have disappeared in the mists of time.

One of the Lost Tribes guys cited some literature that reversed the letters in "Damnoni" to get "Danmoni." That in turn allowed allowed the fanciful interpretation of "Dan's Mine" where "Dan" was one of the Hebrew Tribes which was according to those guys mining tin in Cornwall once upon a time. None of the more usual spellings work for that interpretation, of course, and if the Damnoni were the Picts it all sort of falls apart.

57 posted on 10/28/2003 8:32:14 AM PST by VadeRetro
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To: VadeRetro
Wasn't this (post #22) pretty much FReeper "LostTribes" take on things?
64 posted on 10/28/2003 4:08:32 PM PST by blam
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