Modern literary adaptations of cyula, latinized form in Gildas and Nennius of OE. céol, ciol:—ciul, KEEL, boat, sailing vessel.
[c. 525. Gildas, De Excidio Brit., xxiii. Tribus, ut lingua ejus [gentis] exprimitur cyulis, nostra lingua longis navibus.
c. 620. Nennius, Eulog. Brit., xxviii. Tres chiulæ … in quibus erant Hors et Hengist. Cf. OE. Chron. (Laud MS.), an. 449 Hi þa coman on þrim ceolum hider to Brytene.]
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit. (1637), 128 (D.). Embarqu’d in forty cyules or pinnaces, and sailing about the Picts’ coasts. Ibid., II. 66 (D.). In every ciule thirtie wives.
1876. Skene, Celtic Scot., I. I. iii. 146. Three cyuls came from Germany.
