(Vol. iv., p. 437.)
I beg to suggest that the word _London_ is derived from the Celtic
_Luan_, "the moon," and _dun_, "a city on a hill;" thus _Luandun_ would
mean "the city of the moon," _i.e._ of "the temple of the moon." I have
seen it stated somewhere, that the site of St. Paul's was formerly that
of a temple of Diana: if this be true, it gives weight to my definition
of the word. I would also suggest that the name of _Greenwich_ is
indicative of the religious worship of the ancient people of Britain; as
_Grian_ is "the sun" in Celtic, and no doubt Greenwich could boast of
its "Grynean grove."
"His tibi Grynaei nemoris dicatur origo:
Ne quis sit lucus, quo se plus jactet Apollo."