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Does Corieltavi Mean ‘Army of Many Rivers’?

2002; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 82; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0003581500073820

1758-5309

Andrew Breeze,

Byzantine Studies and History

The British people formerly known to scholars as Coritani , but now commonly referred to as Corieltauvi , lived in the region of Leicester, Nottingham and Lincoln, with their capital at Ratae , or Leicester. Their name was recovered as follows. They appear in Ptolemy as Coritani (variant Contavi ) and the Ravenna Cosmography as Rate Corion (taken as an abbreviated form). Coritani and Corion resisted every attempt to extract a meaning from them.