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These Cumbrian Welshmen called their chief town Caer Luel, or something of the sort; and there is some reason for believing that it was the capital of the historical Arthur, if any Arthur ever existed, though later ages transferred the legend of the British hero to Caerleon-upon-Usk, after men had begun to forget that the region between the Clyde and the Mersey had once been true Welsh soil.
I asked him not to tell me when we came to the border, because I hoped to know it by instinct; and, as it turned out, I did know. But I think any one with eyes must have known. Out from old Caer Luel, our road had crossed the Eden where Willie Armstrong escaped, and ran on white and smooth toward the Solway, whose sands glistened golden in the sun.
Bæda, in his barbarised Latin fashion calls it Lugubalia. 'The Saxons, says Murray's Guide, with charming naïveté, 'abbreviated the name into Luel, and afterwards called it Caer Luel. This astounding hotchpotch forms an admirable example of the way in which local etymology is still generally treated in highly respectable publications.
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