Thanks to Andrew and Thomas for clearing this up. I had not thought that
Ptolemy knew about such remote tribes, and I'm disappointed that the
Briganti weren't around Cork--but Munster isn't all that far away and in
any case it's still interesting to me that they were there at all way back
when in view of their presence in northeast Britain. An elderly gentleman
and former teacher in the big church in Hexham, where I was visiting some
ancestral tombs, told me that the Romans thought of the rebellious ones as
terrorists but he prefered to think of them as freedom-fighters. In any
case, thanks again. Anne Prescott.
> You're not making it up. It's the 2nd-century map of Ptolemy. Whether or
> not Spenser knew it, I don't know offhand, but I remember chasing it up
> once, and guessing that he probably did.
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>> to my utter delight there were some Briganti around what is now Cork.
>> There were also some Briganti in Northumbria, of course, but the Corkish
>> ones would make wonderful Brigands in Book VI even if "Briganti" and
>> "Brigands" have no etymological connection (I checked the OED). Does
>> this
>> ring a bell? Am I making this up? Always possible. Anne (Prescott)
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