Editing Caen (section)

==Etymology==
The first references to the name of Caen are found in different acts of the dukes of [[Duchy of Normandy|Normandy]]: ''Cadon'' 1021/1025,<ref>Marie Fauroux, ''Recueil des actes des ducs de Normandie (911–1066)'', Mémoires de la Société des antiquaires de Normandie XXXVI, Caen, 1961, p. 122, n° 32.</ref> ''Cadumus'' 1025,<ref>''Ibid.'', p. 130, n° 34.</ref> ''Cathim'' 1026/1027.<ref>''Villam que dicitur Cathim super fluvium Olne'': the town called Cathim on the Orne river, ''ibid''., p. 182, n° 58.</ref> Year 1070 of the Parker manuscript<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 August 2007 |title=Manuscript A: The Parker Chronicle |url=http://asc.jebbo.co.uk/a/a-L.html |access-date=7 July 2009 |publisher=Asc.jebbo.co.uk |archive-date=26 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726221228/http://asc.jebbo.co.uk/a/a-L.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> of the ''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]'' refers to Caen as ''Kadum'',<ref>''Her Landfranc se þe wæs abbod an Kadum com to Ængla lande'': Here [[Lanfranc]] who was [[abbot]] at Caen came to England.</ref> and year 1086 of the Laud manuscript<ref>[http://asc.jebbo.co.uk/e/e-L.html Manuscript E: The Laud Chronicle] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090212153114/http://asc.jebbo.co.uk/e/e-L.html |date=12 February 2009}} – Asc.jebbo.co.uk</ref> gives the name as ''Caþum''.<ref>''He swealt on Normandige on þone nextan dæg æfter natiuitas sancte Marie. 7-man bebyrgede hine on Caþum æt sancte Stephanes mynstre'': He [King William] died in Normandy on the day after the Nativity of St Mary and was buried in Caen, in St Stephen's Abbey</ref> Despite a lack of sources as to the origin of the settlements, the name Caen would seem to be of [[Gaulish]] origin, from the words ''catu-'', referring to military activities and ''magos'', field, hence meaning "manoeuvre field" or "battlefield".<ref>René Lepelley, ''Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de communes de Normandie'', P.U.C., Corlet, Caen, [[Condé-sur-Noireau]], 1996</ref> In [[Layamon]]'s [[Layamon's Brut|''Brut'']], the poet asserts that [[King Arthur]] named the city in memory of [[Sir Kay]],<ref>Brut, l. 13,936</ref> although the [[historicity of King Arthur]] is widely doubted.