Venicones

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The Venicones were an ancient Celtic tribe of Britain. In the first century, around the time of the Roman conquest of Britain, they lived in what is today Tayside.

Whilst Kenneth Jackson argued that their name could not be explained as Celtic, J. T. Koch found identified the name with a later, Cumbric, form from the Gododdin, where a region Maen Gwyngwn (pron. gwɪngun) is mentioned. According to Koch, Venicones-Gwyngwn translates as "kindred Hounds".[1]

  1. ^ J. T. Koch, The Stone of the Wenicones, in: Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 29, 1982, p. 87ff.
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