[99] "The notion that the Albanian is a mere mixture of Greek and Turkish has long been superseded by the conviction that though mixed it is essentially a separate language. The doctrine also that it is of recent introduction into Europe has been similarly abandoned. There is every reason for believing that as Thunmann suggested, it was, at dawn of history, spoken in the countries where it is spoken at the present moment."--Latham, R. G., _Varieties of Man_, p. 552. [100] Rhys, J., _Celtic Britain_. [101] The same root may be behind _deruish_ or _dervish_. [102] Gordon, E. O., _Prehistoric London_, p. 127. [103] Virgil, _Æneid_, 79, 80, 81. [104] _Cornish Feasts and Folklore_, p. 119. [105] Malory, viii. [106] I question the current supposition that this is a corruption of _chy an woon_ or "house on the hill". [107] Beal, W., _Britain and the Gael_, p. 22. [108] Herodotus, 11, 52. [109] Johnston, J. B., _Place-names of England and Wales_, p. 413. [110] Burrows, R. M., _The Discoveries in Crete_, p. 11. [111] _Hastings_ (Ward Lock & Co.), p. 63. [112] xxvii. 12. [113] _Sepulchres of Ancient Etruria_, p. 9. [114] From _mercari_, to trade (Skeat). [115] _Jonnock_ is probably cognate with _yankee_, which was in old times used in the New England States as an adjective meaning "excellent," "first-class". Thus, a "yankee" horse would be a first-class horse, just as we talk of English beef and other things English, meaning that they are the best. Another explanation of _yankee_ is that when the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth Rock, near Massachusetts Bay, in 1620, they were met on the shore by native Indians who called them "Yangees"--meaning "white man"--and the term was finally completed into "Yankees". [116] Taylor, Rev. R., _Diegesis_, p. 158. [117] The remarkable serpentine, shell-mosaiked shrine, known as Margate Grotto, is discussed in chap. xiii. [118] i., 367. [119] _Odyssey_, Book IV. [120] _Cf._ Smith, G., _Religion of Ancient Britain_, p. 65. [121] _Myths of Crete and Prehistoric Europe_, p. 239. [122] Rydberg, V., _Teutonic Mythology_, pp. 22-36. [123] _Odyssey_, Book I. [124] _Ibid._, Book III. [125] _The Myth of Br. Islands_, p. 324. [126] The current idea that London was _Llyn din_, the _Lake town_, has been knocked on the head since it has been "proved that the lake which was described so picturesquely by J. R. Green did not exist". _Cf._ Rice Holmes, _Ancient Britain_, p. 704.