Brannovices

The Brannovīcēs or Aulerci Brannovīcēs (Gaulish: *Brannouīcēs/Brannowīcēs) were a Gallic tribe dwelling in the modern Yonne department or the Saône valley during the Iron Age and the Roman period. They were part of the Aulerci.^[1]

Name

The Gaulish ethnonym *Brannouīcēs/Brannowīcēs means 'those who vanquish by (or like) the crow'. It stems from the root brano- ('crow', cf. OIr., Welsh bran) attached to the suffix -uices ('victors').^[2][3]

In Caesar (B. G. vii. 75) there are also readings "Blannovicibus" and "Blannoviis" (Oudendorp. ed. Caes.)

Geography

Walckenaer proposes to place the "Blannovices" or "Brannovices" in the district of Mâcon, where D'Anville also places the Brannovices or Brannovii. Walckenaer urges, in favor of this supposition, the existence of a place called Blannot in the district of Mâcon. There is another Blannot in the department of Côte d'Or, about 22 km from Arnay, and here Walckenaer places the Blannovii.^[4] The controversy has not been resolved.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. Kruta 2000, p. 440.
2. Sergent 1991, p. 10.
3. Delamarre 2003, pp. 85, 318.
4. Géog. vol. i. p. 331

Bibliography

• Delamarre, Xavier (2003). Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental. Errance. ISBN 9782877723695.
• Kruta, Venceslas (2000). Les Celtes, histoire et dictionnaire : des origines à la romanisation et au christianisme. Robert Laffont. ISBN 2-221-05690-6.
• Sergent, Bernard (1991). "Ethnozoonymes indo-européens". Dialogues d'histoire ancienne. 17 (2): 9–55. doi:10.3406/dha.1991.1932.