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nouns. I do not call attention to the circumstance 
CONTENTS. Page | merely as a literary curiosity, but to preserve the 
aaa Pendants H.. Vamped". A as royal geographer from liability to imputations of 
Folk Lore_Omens from Catile— Horse’s Head — Rush- a6 extraordinary ignorance a“ ae subject, si also 
bearings # 5 = F . : - #8 | to show the accuracy of his delineation of Europe 
oO I and Books, No. 5., by Bolton Corne - 259 - Mi 4urop 
Plachaininy oF Parailel Baan No. 2. = - 20 | at that interesting epoch, whence the principal 
St. Antholin’s = = > = 3 - #69 | states of Europe must date their establishment. 
Queries : — King Alfred, mentioning the seat of the Obotriti, 
e nants, by Ss a oleate & = F oe or Obotrite, as they are sometimes named, a 
ew Dodo Queries, by H. E. Stricklan - - : A 4 ‘ ieee FEA 
Coleridge’s Christabel, Byron’s Lara: Tablet to Na- Venedic nation, who, in the 9th century, occupied 
aie o S PTE) hiiiiice Loni Bacon's 262 | what is now the duchy of Mecklenburg, calls 
Minor Queries : — Howkey or Horkey— ac s > ; te . . 
Fe Seeadea at Equivocation >. E ~ 263 | them Apdrede, and says —“ Be nor than him is 
Sees : apdrede, and east north wylie the man afeldan 
a 9% 
Etymology of Armagh, by Rev. Dr. Todd - - 264 het. . ah 4 
William Basse and his Sree Ie eS LL.D. a Barrington translates the words thus: —‘‘ To 
Beaver Hats — Pisan, by T. Hudson Turner == - > 5 4 s Fi . 
Replies to Minor Queries :— Norman Pedigrees — Trans- the north 1S Aprede, and to the north east the 
— of faa ee ee a wolds which are called AXfeldan. + 
— Calamity —.Zero— Complutensian Polyglot — Sir E : Se poe 
W. Rider — Pokership —Havior, Heavier or Hever — re Dr. Ingram has the following variation 2 
Sir W. Hamilton — Dr. Johnson’s Library? - - 266 And to the east north are the wolds which are 
MISCELLANIES;: — called Heath Wolds.” { ‘To the word wolds he 
ee re ho! Gobicn "Age - = 270 | appends a note: —‘* Wylte, See on this word a 
MisceLLaNgous ; — note hereafter.” Very well; the promised note is 
sp a a hea So a 5 7 27) | to justify the metamorphosis of the warlike tribe, 
J) olumes wanted - - - - 2 : . 
Notices to Paabanandeate’- : = z > 271 | known in the annals and chronicles of the 9th 
Advertisements — = - : = = - 271 | century as the Wilti, Wilzi, Weleti, and Welatibi, 
KING ALFRED'S GEOGRAPHY OF EUROPE. 
The sketch of Europe, which our illustrious 
Alfred has inserted in his translation of Orosius, is 
justly considered, both here and on the Continent, 
as a valuable fragment of antiquity*; and I am 
sorry that I can commend little more than the 
pine taken by his translators, the celebrated 
aines Barrington and Dr. Ingram, to make it 
available to ordinary readers. ‘The learned judge 
had very good intentions, but his knowledge of 
Anglo-Saxon was not equal to the task. Dr. 
Ingram professedly applied himself to correct both 
Alfred’s text and Barrington’s version, so far as 
relates to the description of Europe; but in two 
instances, occurring in one passage, he has adopted 
the judge’s mistake of proper names for common 
* “La précieuse géographie d’Alfred, roi d’An- 
gieterre.”— Le Comte J. Griiberg, La Scandinavie 
Vengée, p. 36. 
into heaths and wolds. Thirty pages further on 
there is a note by J. Reinhold Forster, the na- 
turalist and navigator, who wrote it for Barrington 
in full confidence that the translation was correct : 
—“ The Aifeldan,” he says, “are, as king Alfred 
calls them, wolds: there are at present in the 
middle part of Jutland, large tracts of high moors, 
covered with heath only.” 
Of wylte, Dr. Ingram writes : — “ This word has 
never been correctly explained; its original sig- 
nification is the same, whether written felds, 
fields, velts, welds, wilds, wylte, wealds, walds, 
walz, wolds, &c. &c.” And on heath, he says: — 
“Mr. Forster seems to have read Hefeldan (or 
Hethfeldan), which, indeed, I find in the Junian 
MS. inserted as a various reading by Dr. Marshall 
(MSS. Jun. 15.). It also occurs, further on in 
the MS., without any various reading. I have 
therefore inserted it in the text.” 
* Cotton MSS., Tiberius, b. i. fol. 12 b. 
t+ Transl. of Orosius, p. 8. 
¢ Inaugural Lecture, p. 72. 
