Viducasses

The Viducassēs (Gaulish: *Uiducassēs/Widucassēs) were a Gallic tribe dwelling in the modern Calvados department during the Iron Age and the Roman period.

The meaning of the second element -casses, attested in other Gaulish ethnonyms such as Bodiocasses, Durocasses, Sucasses, Tricasses, or Veliocasses, has been debated, but it probably signifies '(curly) hair, hairstyle' (cf.

[4] Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel has proposed to interpret the name as 'those with wooden helmets'.

[6][7] The Viducasses dwelled south of the Bodiocasses, north of the Aulerci Diablintes, southeast of the Venelli, northeast of the Abrincatui, west of the Lexovii, and northwest of the Sagii.

[8] During the Roman period, their chief town was known as Aregenua ('by the Guigne river'; modern Vieux), whose area roughly corresponded to the plain of Caen.