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<strong>The</strong> early name of the British counties of Cornwall and Devon in<br />

southwestern England was Dumnoni, or Danmoni. <strong>The</strong> historian William<br />

Camden said Cornwall was: 693<br />

That region which according to the geographers, is the first of all<br />

Britain, and... was in ancient times inhabited by those Britains,<br />

whom Solinas called, Dunmonii, Ptolomy (called) Damnonii, or<br />

(as we find in some other copies), more truly Danmonil which<br />

name … derived from the ever-continuing mines of tin in this<br />

tract, which Britains call monia.<br />

<strong>The</strong> name Danmonia derives from moina, a tin mine, and Dan,<br />

the people who mined the tin. <strong>The</strong>y nicknamed this ancient tin mining<br />

region Dan’s tin mines.<br />

Phoenician or Hebrew influence seems present in many ancient<br />

place names in Cornwall. <strong>The</strong>se include Baal Rock, Boswidden and<br />

Chegwidden. <strong>The</strong> latter both mean house of the Jews. Ywedhyon,<br />

meaning of the Jews, is a suffix in several place names.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Welsh Chronicle, sometimes called Annales Cambriae, refers<br />

to a region in Wales near St David's or Mnyw (Menevia) as St. David's<br />

Moni Iudeorum. This may identify the area as a tin mining settlement of<br />

the Israelite tribe of Judah.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Vetus Chronicon Holsatiae says the Saxons, Danes and Jutes<br />

are Jews of the tribe of Dan. 694 <strong>The</strong>se other Scythian groups arrived after<br />

the Roman occupation.<br />

In about 800CE, Nennius traced the Saxons back to Scythia. In<br />

his account of the arrival of the Saxon leaders Hengist and Hrosa on the<br />

Isle of Thanet, Nennius mentions that they sent their messengers to<br />

Scythia for reinforcements.<br />

Earlier in this chapter, we saw that Herodotus noted the Persians<br />

called the Scythians by the name of Sacae or Saka from their ancient<br />

name for Israel. <strong>The</strong> Saxons also attributed their own origin to the<br />

territory in which the exiled lost ten tribes settled. Strabo confirms the<br />

tradition that Sukasuna was part of the Roman province of Armenia.<br />

<strong>The</strong> opening paragraph of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle also says of<br />

the earlier Celtic inhabitants of Britain, whom the Anglo-Saxons<br />

displaced:<br />

<strong>The</strong> inhabitants of this land were Britons, they came from<br />

Armenia, and first settled in the south of Britain.<br />

In addition, Milton says: 695<br />

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