Chap. VII Ebraucus, the Successor of Mempricius, Conquers the Gauls, and Builds the Towns Kaerebrauc, &c.
Mempricius being dead, Ebraucus, his son, a man of great stature and wonderful strength, took upon him the government of Britain, which he held forty years. He was the first after Brutus who invaded Gaul with a fleet, and distressed its provinces by killing their men and laying waste their cities; and having by these means enriched himself with an infinite quantity of gold and silver, he returned victorious. After this he built a city on the other side of the Humber, which, from his own name, he called Kaerebrauc, that is, the city of Ebraucus,160 about the time that David reigned in Judæa, and Sylvius Latinus in Italy; and that Gad, Nathan, and Asaph prophesied in Israel. He also built the city of Alclud161 towards Albani, and the town of mount Agned,162 called at this time the Castle of Maidens, or the Mountain of Sorrow.
Footnotes
160 York seems to be a corruption of Ebrauc. It is first mentioned by Ptolemy (ii. 3.) a.d. 120.
161 Alclud or Alcluith is unknown to the classic writers: it is first mentioned by Gildas, and is thought to be the modern Dumbarton.
162 Edinburgh.