and translated Bodiocasses as 'those who have blond curls/braids'.

Other scholars have instead connected the element with metalworking. Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel interprets the -casses ethnonyms as helmet-names, glossing Bodiocasses as 'those with the shiny (i.e. bronze) helmets' and treating such names as evidence that the metalworking era had begun. Mélanie Mairecolas and Jean-Marie Pailler, who link cass- to 'tin' rather than to 'hair' (cf. Gaulish Cassi-dannos, 'magistrate