The name of Wales was not derived from Wallo, a general, or Wandolena, the queen, as the fabulous history of Geoffrey of Monmouth falsely maintains, because neither of these personages are to be found amongst the Welsh; but it arose from a barbarian appellation. The Saxons, when they seized upon Britain, called this nation, as they did all foreigners, Wallenses; and thus the barbarous name remains to the people and their country.
Geraldus Cambrensis, The Description of Wales.
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