Brythons

The later name Britain is derived from a second swarm of Celts called Brythons or Britons, who after a long interval followed the first Celtic immigration.

A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Samuel Rawson Gardiner 1865

Two following waves of Britons (or Brythons) settled in Armorica around the fourth and fifth centuries to escape from the Anglo-Saxons and the Scots in Britain, and they actually gave the country the name of “Little Britain” which later became the modern “Brittany” (in London, Little Britain was also the street where Embassy of the Duchy of Brittany was later located).

Brittany Prepares for St. Yew's Day 2009

Thus in the speech of the gypsies lingered the terms Zingara and Zamora; the 'sir who dominated Nemedia were called Nemedians, and later figured in Irish history, and the Nordics who settled in Brythunia were known as Brythunians, Brythons, or Britons.

The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

Thus in the speech of the gypsies lingered the terms Zingara and Zamora; the 'sir who dominated Nemedia were called Nemedians, and later figured in Irish history, and the Nordics who settled in Brythunia were known as Brythunians, Brythons, or Britons.

The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

A wave of Neolithic peoples from the Mediterranean was followed by Celts, Goidels, Brythons, Saxons in the 6th century B.C.E., and then by Picts.

2. Scotland 2001

The true Celts are represented by two stocks: Goidels (Gaels), surviving in northern Ireland and high Scotland, and Cymri and Brythons (Britons), still represented in Wales.

k. The British Isles 2001

The Brythons were close kin to the Gauls, particularly the Belgi.

k. The British Isles 2001

Just as the Roman and the Saxon conquests had, in turn, driven the Brythons northwards, so the dispossessed Saxons fled to Scotland from their Norman victors.

An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

Goidels and Brythons must at one period have met; but the result of the meeting was to drive the Goidels into the Highlands, where the Goidelic or Gaelic form of speech still remains different from the Welsh of the descendants of the Britons.

An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

The latter were Picts and Goidels; the former, Brythons or Britons, of the same race as those who settled in England and were driven by the Saxon conquerors into Wales, as their kinsmen were driven into Brittany by successive conquests of Gaul.

An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait