The map in the opening credits shows the modern county of Cornwall shown as 'Cornwealas', whilst in the show Cornwall is repeatedly called 'Cornwallum'. Though this may be seen as an error, both spellings can be considered correct. Cornwealas is a compound word derived from Kernow - the Celtic British tribal name by which the inhabitants referred to themselves, and Wealas - the Saxon word for 'foreigner'. The name Wales also derives from Wealas, as shown on the map. Cornwallum has the same origin with wealum (corrupted to wallum) being the plural of wealas, ie - 'foreigners' instead of 'foreigner'. It must also be remembered that spellings of the day varied depending on who scribed the historical source. People were spelling phonetically or copying from an existing record - there was no dictionary as today and up until the relatively recent arrival of Christianity there wasn't even the Latin alphabet. Pre-Christian Saxons wrote with runes and then few were literate.
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