1806,] Bei respective View of Iliforical Writers. 



441 



jng to fet her free again, it came to 

 a conflict between the brotliers, near 

 the Caledonian foied, in wiiich 1500 

 Norwegians were killed, and the reft iied 

 to their fliips. Aurelius availed himlblf 

 ol" this opportunity, to pieveut any far- 

 ther miii;rations of the Angles and their 

 allies into Britain. He treated Guitlach 

 with kindnefs, and gave hiui and the 

 queen their liberty ; but on condition 

 that he ihould prouiifeon oath to remain 

 faitlifid to iiis intcreil, and to pay him 

 ail annual tribute, and tliat he Ihould 

 furrender the fons of his principal men 

 as holtagcs. Berinus, who had taken 

 refuge among the northern Siaxons (in 

 the prel'cnt liolfteln), was lb enraged at 

 this, tliat, with the atlillance of thofc 

 people, he made an irruption into Funcn, 

 but met with no fucL-efs. He then re- 

 paired to tiie Thyringi.ans, where he 

 married the daughter of duke Segue. 

 This Berinus is faid to have made an e\- 

 jjcdition into Galcony with 21,000 men. 

 The mother of Aurelius and Berinus is, 

 un this occafiun, named Coiiuvenna,^ 

 which means a haudfome woman, whence 

 it is probable that llic was of Da- 

 nilli or Norw egian delceut f. (^^ol. i. p. 

 329-330). 



About this timet Aurelius died, and 

 Arthur, his fon, a brave and intelligent 

 prince, fucceeded to the throne, being 

 then only fifteen years of age. Elkild 

 and his Ijnjther, whole name is not men- 

 tioned, the fons of Guitlach§, were then 

 kings of Funcn. The latter of them 

 rcfufed to pay the proniifcd tribute 

 to Arthur, probably from contempt of 

 bis youth. But Arthur came with an 

 army, and Hew him ; and is laid at the 

 fame lime to have conquered alio the 

 jlland of (rullaud, or perhaps rather Jut- 

 land, if that is nieaut by (Jolund in Gal- 

 frcd of ftlonniourii. It is related, that 

 Arthur was married with (iunvos, the 

 daughter of duke Ivaddor : from the name 

 Ave mull conclude that Ihe was a nor- 

 thern princcfs, but it is uncertain whe- 

 ther llie was !i Dane or a Norwegian, 



• Kone, in Danilli, figHifics nvomj/i and 

 lu'ife ; luetn, pronounced i>chn, is a word of 

 the NorWL-gian dialedt, fignifying handjome. 

 — Tnir.jlator. 



•f- From what follows in the original, it ap- 

 pears that this tranfaftion happened fome time 

 before tho 'jcyc Xn.—Trarjlat':r. 



X The author has jull biifore related the 

 tkath of Frodc V. king of J.eire, which oc- 

 Ciircd in the year Wii).—Ti arjlator. 



^ Guiilach loit his life in Flanders o.i his 

 I'fcnch Expedition.-— rr«jny?;;/»/-. 



for Arthur had many tranfaftions ia 

 Norway as well as in Denmark ; and 

 thefe his expeditions into our northern 

 countries are, in my opinion, as certain 

 as I look upo'i thofe to be fabulous which 

 he is faid to have made into Gaul and 

 Italy. Nay, the obligations of the kings 

 of Funen to Arthur were fo great, that » 

 long time after this, namely in the year 

 542, lilkild went to his alhftance, which 

 muil have been done with the confent of 

 llolf ■•', othervvife this prince was powerful 

 enough to have prevented it. But all the 

 circumllauces (hew, tliat the incrcafmg 

 power of the Anglo-Saxons in Britaitx 

 has much difplcafed the Danilh kings : 

 for as they had conquered Jutland and 

 Anglia, there was reafoii to fear that 

 thole people might one day, from Britain, 

 make an attempt to recover their native 

 countries. (V'ol. i. p. 337-338). 



For ihe JMonthli/ Magazine. 



OBSERVATIONS 0/7. the WUITINGS of HIS- 

 TOIUANS uf all AGES ««</ COUNTRIES, 



chieji)/ with a vifav to the accuracy 



of Mei?" MILITARY DESCRIPIIONS, find 

 their KNOWLEDGE of the ART nf WAR. 

 hi/ GENERAL ANDREOSSI. 



WHEN printing was firft invented, 

 the editors of the ancient hifto- 

 rians ilrcnuoully endeavoured to correct, 

 in the prefs, the errors of their national 

 manufcripts ; but the generality of them 

 not being converfant with the art of war, 

 were unqualified to refine thefe corrupt 

 idioms. Tranllators, inliead of releal- 

 ing us from this maze, have multiplied 

 our difficulties. They even recur to for- 

 mer ambiguities in their military details, 

 a decided proof of their ignorance. 



The art of war, like every other art, 

 has its peculiar and diltinguilhing pbrafes. 

 The ancients carefully treafured up their 

 original dehnitions, and we have frag- 

 ments of a vocabulary by Urbicius re- 

 lating to the Phalanx, and of Modeftus 

 relating to the Legion: the*tranllators, 

 however, dilliearteucd, no doubt, by 

 the ajipareut fterility of the refcarch, 

 have not thought proper even to notice 

 this circumltance. 



When letters were revived, many dif- 

 tingui/lied pcriinis devoted themfelves, 

 with indefatigable zeal, to the reftoratiori 

 of all fuch documents as were calculated 



* King of I>cire, and fupreme king of all 

 Dcnniirk, a l)ravc and polfnt prince, who 

 had reduced under his power Anglia (now 

 Slefwicj, and the whole of wlut was then 



