On referring to Turner's Anglo-Saxons, I find it stated:
"We read of merchants from Ireland landing at Cambridge with cloths, and exposing their merchandise to sale."
Mr. Turner refers to Gale, vol. ii. p. 482.
I do not know to what work Mr. Turner refers, unless to Gale's Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores
Veteres; on examining this I can find no passage at the page and volume indicated, on the subject.
Can any of your readers state where it is to be found? It appears remarkable that the merchants from Ireland should land at the inland town of Cambridge, and it seems a probable conjecture that Cambridge is a mistake for Cambria.
William of Malmesbury speaks of a commerce between Ireland and the neighbourhood of Chester, and it seems much more probable that the merchants of Ireland landed in Wales than in Cambridge.
John Thrupp.
Derivation of Celt.—What is the proper derivation of the word celt, as applied to certain weapons of antiquity? A good authority, in Dr. Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, p. 351., obtains the term from—
"Celtes, an old Latin word for a chisel, probably derived from cælo, to engrave."