DoesCorieltaviMean ‘Army of Many Rivers’?

Abstract

The British people formerly known to scholars asCoritani, but now commonly referred to asCorieltauvi, lived in the region of Leicester, Nottingham and Lincoln, with their capital atRatae, or Leicester. Their name was recovered as follows. They appear in Ptolemy asCoritani(variantContavi) and the Ravenna Cosmography asRate Corion(taken as an abbreviated form).CoritaniandCorionresisted every attempt to extract a meaning from them.