An introductory note and a query!
My principal interest is in the history and archaeology of SW Scotland:
more specifically, two periods of dramatic transition, the 5th - 7th
centuries (sub-Roman to Anglian) and the 10th-13th centuries (Cumbrian to
Anglo-Norman) . This has inevitably led to the consideration of
ecclesiastical sites and history (and pseudo-history!). I am also a member
of the britarch and wells-and-spas lists, and assist in maintaining the web
site for the Scottish Place-Name Society at
<http://www.st-and.ac.uk/institutes/sassi/spns/index.htm>
I am at present examining John Morris' hypothesis that St Kentigern's exile
from Scotland was passed in northern Gaul, rather than Wales of Jocelin's
"Vita". A bishop Gonotiernus / Gonothigernus subscribed to two church
councils of Gaul in the mid-sixth century: Morris took this to be a form of
the name Conthigirn(us) found in the Annales Cambriae (sub anno 612), which
name Kenneth Jackson had already identified as an earlier form of Kentigern
/ Kyndeyrn, from British conos+tigernos. The little detail I am trying to
clear up occurs as a foot-note to Mansi's edition of the councils where he
reports that Jean Harduoin considered the "correct" form of the name
Gonothigernus to be CUNAUTEGERNUS. I presume the source of this was Jean
Hardouin's "Acta Conciliorum" - an earlier edition of the councils - but
here I am stuck, as I can't find a copy of this. What I would like to know
is, where did Jean Hardouin find this eccentric form of the name
*Conotigernus ? If anyone has a copy of Hardouin in their library, perhaps
they could elucidate !
Henry Gough-Cooper@Dumfriesshire, Scotland
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