Dumnonia is the Latinised name for the Brythonic kingdom in Sub-Roman Britain between the late 4th and late 8th centuries, in what is now the more westerly parts of South West England. It was centred in the area later called Devon, but included modern Cornwall and part of Somerset, with its eastern boundary changing over time as the gradual westward expansion of the neighbouring Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex encroached on its territory. The spelling Damnonia is sometimes encountered, but is also used for the land of the Damnonii, later part of the Kingdom of Strathclyde (itself sometimes referred to as Damnonia), in what is today southern Scotland.Domnonia occurs as well, infrequently.
The kingdom is named after the Dumnonii, a British Celtic tribe living in the southwest at the time of the Roman invasion of Britain, according to Ptolemy's Geography. Variants of the name Dumnonia include Domnonia and Damnonia, the latter being used by Gildas in the 6th century as a pun on "damnation" to deprecate the area's contemporary ruler Constantine. The name has etymological origins in the proto-Celtic root word *dubno-, meaning both "deep" and "world". Groups with similar names existed in Scotland (Damnonii) and Ireland (Fir Domnann). Later, the area became known to the English of neighbouring Wessex as the kingdom of West Wales, and its inhabitants were also known to them as Defnas (i.e. men of Dumnonia). In Welsh, and similarly in the Southwestern Brythonic languages, it was Dyfneint and this is the form which survives today in the name of the county of Devon (Modern Welsh: Dyfnaint, Cornish: Dewnans, Breton: Devnent).
Tied, conniving control
The faith deceived for the sake of today
We have sold tomorrow
I hate this, i hate you
Who accepts this lie in silence
I hate this, our false values
Why don't we all see through this
Unheard, fixed in your own world
Lost in society, too far gone
Is it too fucking late?
I hate this
I hate a veiled invert frustration
Turned in, onto, your own
From the hand that rocks the cradle
Ashes will unfold
Release ourselves from these actions
How you keep us distracted
What do you really wish
To understand exactly what's behind
Your real desire here
Inside, nothing holds freedom silent
And we will die in our own ignorance
Awaiting blindly