If it be true that Boudicca were able to put 4000 war chariots into the field there must at that time have been numerous stud farms, and the low-lying pastures of the larger Kent, which once contained London, were ideal for the purpose. The Haymarket is said to have derived its name from the huge amount of hay required by the mews of Charing Cross; a mile or so westward is Hay Hill; old maps indicate enormous mews in the Haymarket district, and there are indications that some of the present great mews and stables of south-western London are the relics of ancient parks or compounds. According to Homer-- By Dardanus, of cloud-compelling Jove Begotten, was Dardania peopled first, Ere sacred Ilium, populous city of men, Was founded on the plain; as yet they dwelt On spring-abounding Ida's lowest spurs. To Dardanus was Erichthonius born, Great King, the wealthiest of the sons of men; For him were pastur'd in the marshy mead, Rejoicing with their foals, three thousand mares; Them Boreas, in the pasture where they fed, Beheld, enamour'd; and amid the herd In likeness of a coal-black steed appear'd; Twelve foals, by him conceiving, they produc'd. These, o'er the teeming corn-fields as they flew, Skimm'd o'er the standing ears, nor broke the haulm; And o'er wide Ocean's bosom as they flew, Skimm'd o'er the topmost spray of th' hoary sea.[444] Boreas, whom we may connote with Bress, the Consort of Brigit, or Bride, is here represented as _wallowing_, a term which Skeat derives from the Anglo-Saxon _wealwian_, to roll round: he adds, "see voluble," but in view of the world-wide rites of immersion or baptism it is more seemly to connect _wallow_ with _hallow_. Mr. Weller, Senr., preferred to spell his name with a "V": there is no doubt that Weller and Veller were synonymous terms, and therefore that Fulham, in which is now Walham Green, was originally a home of Wal or Ful, perhaps the same as Wayland or Voland, the Blacksmith of Wayland's Smithy and of Walland Park.[445] It is supposed that Fulham was the swampy home of _fowlen_, or water _fowls_, but it is an equally reasonable conjecture that it was likewise a tract of marshy meads whereon the _foalen_ or foals were pastured. As already noted the Tartar version of the Pied Piper represents the Chanteur or Kentaur as a _foal_, coursing perpetually round the world. The coins of the Gaulish Volcae exhibit a _wheel_ or _veel_ with the inscription VOL, others in conjunction with a coursing horse are inscribed VOOL, and we find the head of a remarkable maned horse on the coins of the Gaulish Felikovesi. As _felix_ means happy, one may connote the hobby horse with _happi_ness, or one's _hobby_, and it is not improbable that both Felixstowe and Folkestone were settlements of the adjacent Felikovesi, whose coins portray the Hobby's head or Foal.