In the _Æneid_ Virgil observes that "Tyrians and Trojans shall I treat as one". Apart from Tyrians and Trojans the term Tyrrheni or Tyrseni was applied to the Etrurians--a people the mystery of whose origin is one of the unsolved riddles of archæology. It was Etruria that produced not only Dante, but also a galaxy of great men such as no other part of Europe has presented. In Etruria woman was honoured as nowhere else in Europe except, perhaps, in Crete and among the Kelts; and in Etruria--as in Crete--religion was veiled under an "impenetrable cloud of mysticism and symbolism". It is supposed that Etruria derived much from the prehistoric Greeks who dwelt in Albania and worshipped Father Zeus in the sacred derrys or oak-groves of Dodona. The Etrurians and Greeks were unquestionably of close kindred, and it would seem from their town of Albano and their river Albanus that the Etrurians similarly venerated St. Alban or Prince Albion. The capital of Etruria was Tarchon, so named after the Etruscan Zeus, there known as Tarchon. In the Introduction to _The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria_, Dennis points out that for ages the Etruscans were lords of the sea, rivalling the Phoenicians in enterprise; founding colonies in the islands of the Tyrrhene Sea "even on the coast of Spain where Tarragona (in whose name we recognise that of Tarchon) appears to have been one of their settlements--a tradition confirmed by its ancient fortifications. Nay, the Etruscans would fain have colonised the far 'islands of the blest' in the Atlantic Ocean, probably Madeira or one of the Canaries, had not the Carthaginians opposed them." The title _Madeira_, which is radically _deira_, might imply an origin from either Tyre or Troy, and if place-names have any significance it seems probable the Etrurians reached even our remote Albion. One may recognise Targon as at Tarragona in Pentargon, the sonorous, resounding title of a mighty pen or headland near Tintagel, and it is not unlikely Tarchon or Tarquin survives in giant Tarquin who is popularly associated with Cumberland and the North of England. In Arthurian legend it is seemingly this same Tarquin that figures as Sir Tarquin, a false knight who was the enemy of the Round Table and a sworn foe to Lancelot: "They hurtled together like two wild bulls, rashing and lashing with their shields and swords, that sometimes they fell both over their noses. Thus they fought still two hours and more and never would have rest."[105]