6 CIVILISATION AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE NORTH. 



what country these came. The names of Etruria, of ancient 

 Greece, and of Home, naturally occur to our minds. 



Other objects of unquestionable Roman and Greek manu- 

 facture, and hundreds and thousands of coins, of the first, 

 second, third and fourth centuries of the Christian era, show 

 the early intercourse the people of the North had with the 

 western and eastern Roman empire, and with Frisia, Gaul, 

 and Britain. 



A careful perusal of the Eddas and Sagas will enable us, 

 with the help of the ancient Greek and Latin writers, and 

 without any serious break in the chain of events, to make out 

 a fairly continuous history which throws considerable light on 

 the progenitors of the English-speaking people, their migra- 

 tions northward from their old home on the shores of the 

 Black Sea, their religion, and the settlement of Scandinavia, 

 of England, and other countries. 



