The Corionototae were a group of Ancient Britons apparently inhabiting what is now Northern England about whom very little is known. They were recorded in one Roman votary inscription (now lost) from Corbridge , of uncertain date, which commemorated the victory of a prefect of cavalry, Quintus Calpurnius Concessinius, over them.
3-508: Scholars tend to categorise them as a sub-group of the Brigantes in the absence of any information. The name Coriono-totae is formed from two roots; either * korio - or * koriono -. from Indo-European * koryo - 'army' and * touta 'tribe, people' ultimately derived from PIE * teutéh₁ - ('people', perhaps 'people under arms'; cf. Old Irish túath 'tribe, people', Lithuanian tautà 'people', Gothic þiuda 'folk') Delamarre suggests
6-506: A root * koriono - 'army-leader'; (cf. Greek koíranos , Old Norse herjann ) so that the name would mean people of the chief, people of chiefs . T.M. Charles-Edwards instead has proposed a tribal name based on an hypothetical deity * Corionos . On the basis of the similarity of the names, writers such as Charles-Edwards, Waldman and Mason have suggested a link with the Irish ethnonym Coriondi , while other earlier writers, erroneously linking
9-611: The name to the Gaelic Cruthin , thought it could refer to the Picts . Derivation from simply Brittonic * korion-toutas would mean people's army or tribal army and might suggest rather a military or political formation of several clans opposed to Rome rather than a tribal group. Brigantes Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
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