David Prashker's Book Of Days: The Cymru

Inhabitants of Brython, the land of the "Celtic" tribes, all of whom emigrated west from the north-eastern Mediterranean, some via Europe, some via North Africa: the Picts from around Thrace, the Scots from Scythia (today’s Ukraine but extended much further east), the Cymru (Welsh) from Cimmeria (today’s Crimea, Biblical Gomer), the Éirish Tuatha Dé Danann from the same area as the Biblical tribe of Dan and the eastern Greek Danaans.

And let us be clear, the land should be named Cymru, not Wales; Wales is a derogatory term, derived from the Anglo-Saxon Wal-ès, meaning "unwanted", "outsider" or "foreigner", which by no-great-coincidence would translate into Egyptian as "Habiru", or Babylonian as "Hapiru", and eventually becomes the word we know, which is "Hebrew" (see my page on Ever at TheBibleNet for more on this). Before the Anglo-Saxon conquest the Cymry inhabited all parts of Brython, but especially those regions still known as Cumbria and Cumberland; they were forced into the western highlands, as the Scots and Picts were into the northern highlands, and the Brythons into Cornwall or across the Channel into Britanny.

The northern "Cymry" marked on this "Welsh" version is now known as Cumbria or Cumberland.

Lloegyr is the Cymru name for their conquerors, and is probably their pronunciation of Lear, the sun-god of that people

Dumnonia was the name given by the Brythons to what is now Devon and Cornwall

If you didn't already do so when you opened the Éirish page, and actually even if you did because most of it is Cymru, go and look at Old King Coel on March 15, who was neither Coel Godhebog - Cole the Magnificent - nor his son, Ceneu ap Coel, later made a saint for defending the Christian faith against the German pagans; I mention them now simply as an excuse to note that "ap" is to Welsh what "Mac" is to Scots, "Fitz" to Anglo-Norman, "ben" to Hebrew and "ibn" to Arabic: "son of"; and to share with you the information that Ceneu is the probable Celtic origin of the English name Kenneth.

But it is another Coel, Coel Hen, who is our man in the famous rhyme: Coel the Old literally. Like the other two, he ruled the Cumbrian region of Northern Brython during the last years of the Roman Empire, at precisely the time when the first of the Goths were extending their lebensraum to these islands.

And besides him, the only person known to have ruled the whole of Cymru was Gruffydd ap Llywelyn - Griffith would be today's spelling - who reigned from 1055-1063; though of course the Tudor dynasty who ruled England and Wales following the Battle of Bosworth were themselves of Cymru origins.