an sae 
old Irith poets, Keating, and other Irith Hiftorians, they are 
denominated Zvatha de Danann, Fir Domnann, Fir Galeon, 
Nemed and Fir Bolga; or rather they were feveral tribes, 
under thefe names, of the Fir Bolga. Some learned men have 
imagined that they were of Gothic and Germanic origin, 
who fettled in this ifland prior to the Chriftian exra, If fo,- 
they might not improbably be fome of the tribes of the 
Balce, the ancient inhabitants of the fouthern coafts of the 
Baltic (Mela) extending from Jutland in the weft to the river 
Niemen or Nemed on the eaft, comprehending a number of 
tribes under various denominations, as Vafi Ernai, the 
Baftarne of Pliny.; Ira, the Hirri of Pliny; the Gyl/en of upper 
and lower Saxony, who alfo fettled in Norway and Sweden 
under the feveral denominations of Dief Gyllen, Fingyllen, 
Ocftergyllen and Weftergyllen, and the Dumua in the Danifh 
Iles. Wherefore the Epdwor of Ptolemy and Ernai of the Irith 
might be defcendants from the Vaf Ernai and Jra, and who 
were denominated alfo Nemetbones or Nemedones, from being 
fettled on that river; and were the Nemed of the Irifh, The 
Gyllen in general were the Fir Galeon of the Irith, The 
Dieff Gyllen were the Dubb Gals of the Trifh ; the Fingyllen 
the Fin Gals of the Irith. The Oefergyllen the Oir Gals 
and the Weffergyllen the Eir Gals of the Irifh, The Dumna 
or Danes, were the fir Domnann of the Irifh. (For this com- 
pare Keating and other Irifh hiftorians with Pom. Mela, Pliny, 
Strabo, Snorro, Torfeus and other northerns.) Thefe Gothic 
nations afrived in different periods at this ifland, that is 
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