Viducassen
Viducassen , also Vidukassen ( Latin Viducasses ) was the name of a Celtic tribe in Gaul who had their residence in what is now the Calvados department in north-western France . The main town was Aregenua (from Gallic are , "below" and genoa , "mouth"), today's Vieux . The name Vieux is derived from the renaming in Roman times to Civitas Viducassensis . They are named as the Esuvian client base .
According to Birkhan , the Gallic name ending -casses is to be interpreted as “the curly, hairy ones” (for example: Bodiocasses , “the blond curly ones”). In Maier this derivative is also mentioned as possible (see below irish buidechas , "blond curly").
In an inscription, the so-called Marbre de Thorigny (marble [stone] from Thorigny; dated 238 AD), the Viducassen are mentioned in connection with Titus Sennius Solemnis, who was honored there; in fact, the stone was discovered in Vieux-la-Romaine , not Thorigny .
literature
- Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 .
- Carl Waldman, Catherine Mason: Encyclopedia of European Peoples. Infobase Publishing, 2006, ISBN 978-1-4381-2918-1 ; P. 830 Google Books .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 300.
- ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 834, note 1.
- ↑ Bernhard Maier: Small lexicon of names and words of Celtic origin. CH Beck OHG, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-49470-6 : p. 71.
- ↑ CIL XIII, 3162 ; Marbre de Thorigny on French Wikipedia.
- ^ Greg Woolf: Becoming Roman: The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000, ISBN 0-521-78982-6 , pp. 24–25 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).