"'And unforgiving, unforgiven dies.'"
Can any of your readers refer me to the remainder of this copy of verses?
PROEM.
Minor Queries Answered.
Kimmeroi, Cimbri, Cymry.
—There appears to be a growing belief that the Gomeridæ of the Bible, the Kimmeroi of the Greeks, the Cimbri of the Romans, and the Cymry or Kymry of Wales, belong to the same family; the few words remaining of their language are to all appearance Kymraeg; and recently there was some likelihood of having more light thrown upon this subject. Kohl, the German traveller, visited the remnant of the Cimbri defeated by Marius, and was told that "sette commune parlano Cimbro." Is the language of these Lombard Kimbri like that of the Kymry of Wales? M. Kohl states that a professor at Padua was about to publish the remains of their language; but I have not seen any subsequent notice respecting them. The inquiry is highly interesting, and will I trust be taken up by some persons who may be in position to obtain further information; and I hope soon to see a few specimens of their language in "NOTES AND QUERIES."
Ritson, in the notes to his work on the Celts, has these remarks on the language of this Cimbric remnant:
"Their language, which was thought to be a corrupt German, was found upon closer inquiry to be very pure Danish. Signor Marco Pezzo has written a very learned dissertation on this subject."—Page 288.
What is the title of this work? I am very desirous to obtain further information on this subject, and invite attention to this people and their Kimbro speech.
T. STEPHENS.