Brutus II - Homer's Brutus and New Troy

Corineus and Gogmagog, the giant that Corineus wrestled with

The Greek historian Homer wrote of the hero named Perithoos and his companion Coronus, in both the Iliad and the Odyssey and besides having similar names to Brutus and Corineus, they both had similar events happen to them.

Both defeated aboriginal tribes, both went wife hunting in the same area, both became great warrior-heroes in Greece, both conquered the king of Greece, both had a son who co-ruled with the son of Coronus/Corineus and there are other similarities as well, that LA Waddell has noted here.

In the second part of this chapter, Waddell looks at the way the the Trojan colonists would name their new colonies after their old homeland. Besides the New Troy that became London, there were also New Troys in the Tiber valley and in Egypt. We see the same thing still happening today with New York, New England and Nova Scotia.

The Troy Niendi of Brutus, became the Tri-Noantes of Ptolemy and Tacitus and finally became the Tri-Novantes of Caesar, the name of the tribe that lived in the London area. Troe-Noey is even mentioned in the Gothic Eddas, along with Hedins-Eyio, or Edinburgh.

King Lud was a later king descended from Brutus, whose name became attached to the city and is why it later changed to Lud-Dun and London.



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