penfahel

Updated: May 21, 2025

But Bede tells us that the Picts of his day called it Penfahel, that is, head of the wall, "fahel" being only "wall" pronounced as some of our northern neighbours would pronounce it, the interesting people who say "fat" for "what." He adds that the English, his own people, called it Penel, cutting the Penfahel short. The Britons called it Penguaul.

G. F. (George Forrest) Browne - The Christian Church in These Islands before the Coming of Augustine: Three Lectures Delivered at St. Paul's in January 1894