The same holds of the more northern peoples. When the Gauls entered the plains of Northern Italy they drove before them vast herds of cattle. Caesar found the Britons keeping large numbers of cattle, and especially those in the interior of the island subsisting almost entirely on their produce5. Strabo writing about A.D. 1, mentions hides as among the articles exported from Britain to the Continent6.
The linguistic argument fully supports the literary evidence. All the Aryan or Indo-European peoples possess a common name for the cow. The Sanskrit gaus , Greek βοῦς, Lat. bos , Irish bo , German kuh , Eng. cow , taken together indicate that before the dispersion of the various stocks (whether the original home of the Aryans was in Northern Europe, as Latham first suggested, or in the Hindu Kush, as Prof. Max Müller maintains) they all possessed the cow. This is further supported by the name for the bull which is found amongst various stocks, the Greek ταῦρος, Lat. taurus , Irish tarb , and the name of the ox , which corresponds to the Sanskrit uksha , and finally the name of steer . Here then we