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Learned M. d'Avezac derives 'Guanche' from Guansheri or Guanseri, a Berber tribe described by El-Idrisi and Leo Africanus. This is better than finding it in the Keltic gwuwrn, gwen, white. Older authorities hold it a corruption of 'Vinchune, the indigenous name of the Nivarian race. Thus, too, Glas's 'Captain Artemis' was Guan-arteme, the one or chief ruler.
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