Histoire :

Étymologie :

A. Rerigonium : 

* Rivet & Smith, p 433 : 

- Ptolemy II, 3,5: 'Rerigonion (= RERIGONIUM), a polis of the Novantae; var. 'Retigonion (= RETIGONIUM); 

- Ravenna I07₃₉ (= R&C 174) : BRIGOMONO

Ravenna's entry has not previously been equated with Ptolemy's. As argued in Chapter V the correspondence between Ptolemy's and Ravenna's North British names is close, and where the former has a name which seems to be lacking in the latter, we should seek it there concealed in a corrupt form. The placing of the name in Ravenna's sequence suits the identification well. The miscopying of ni as m was common, and loss of an initial letter is paralleled (*-erig for *Rerig-, the surviving and now initial e- being further miscopied as B-). Dillemann (69) supports this equation. 

DERIVATION. The name is to be analysed (following Watson CPNS 34-35 and Jackson LHEB 661-62) as a latinisation of British *ro-rigonio- 'very royal (place)', presumably the royal seat of the Novantae. For *ro-, again adapted as Latin re-, see the previous entry. The rest of the name is British *rig- *rigon 'king' (Indo-European *reik-, from which Latin rex, regem, Gaulish *-rix, *rigo-, Welsh rhi, rhion, Irish ri, derive); with *-io- derivational suffix. The element is abundantly present in Continental place-names, ethnic and personal names, many of them assembled by Ellis Evans in GPN 243-49. British Rigodunum contains it, and the ethnicon Durotriges may do so. It is present in two British divine names, Mars Rigisamus (superlative, 'most kingly') in RIB 187 (West Coker, Somerset; see Ross, 1967, 175), and Mars Rigonemetos ('king of the grove' or 'sanctuary') at Nettleham, Lines. (JRS, LII (1962), 192; Ross, 176). On coins of Tasciovanus, who ruled from about 20 B.C. to A.D. 10, is the legend Tascio Ricon or Riconi, this being the equivalent of -rigon- in the present name (Mack Nos. 184, 185). Watson notes that Rerigonium survived in an early Welsh triad as Penrionyd, later Welsh Rhioniydd and eventually English Ryan.

IDENTIFICATION. An unlocated Roman fort, or possibly camp, near Loch Ryan (see next entry) and perhaps under the modem town of Stranraer, Wigtownshire (NX 0660).

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B. Stranraer : 

* A.D Mills (1991 - 2003) : "Stranrever, 1320. 'Broad point'. Gaelic sron + reamher. The 'broad point' is presumably that of the Rinns of Galloway nearby"?

Sources : 

- M.N Bouillet : Dictionnaire universel d'histoire et de géographie. Librairie L. Hachette et Cie. Paris. 1863.

* ALF RIVET & Colin SMITH : The Place-Names of Roman Britain. Batsford Ltd. 1979.

- A.D MILLS : Oxford Dictionary of British Place-names. Oxford University Press. 1991 - 2003

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Liens électroniques des sites Internet traitant de Stranraer : 

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sctwig/wigtown.html

* forum du site Marikavel : Academia Celtica

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