Mascuid then Llaenauc were supposedly the first two kings of Elmet. Reputedly one of Mascuid’s other sons was King Arthur (Arthuis mab Mascuid).
I did a fair bit of research about the Brittonic languages and regional variations in Uncial letterforms to make this chart as correct as I possibly can. In medieval Welsh the Common Brittonic word “mab” (“son/son of”) became “map”, then became “ap”. The last of these Welsh forms is what these names are recorded with because we only know these supposed genealogy details from Welsh texts written hundreds of years after these men lived (if indeed they did!).
Thanks to two Bath curse tablets we know that during the Roman occupation of Britain, Brittonic speakers used Roman letterforms to write Brittonic text. Assuming that they continued doing this after the Romans disoccupied Britain, I have used spellings without the w that is a u-sounding vowel in Welsh text, and an o-sounding vowel in Greek, but is not (as far as I know) used as a vowel in Latin. For similar reasons I’m considering reducing Llaenauc to Laenauc.
In Scotland “mab” became “mac”. According to linguists the Indo-European word that became the Common Brittonic “mab” was “makos”, so the Scottish form is most like the linguistic root.
I will hopefully use this chart to knit a project for “Culturedale”, Calderdale’s 2024 year of culture celebrating our 50th anniversary as a borough. In the early medieval period, aka “the dark ages”, the area which is now Calderdale was in the Brittonic kingdom of Elmet.
