398 HISTORY OF CERTAIN 
agree with their manners. ‘Their common vale- 
diction is ‘‘ leben wohl,” live well. This corres- 
ponds with the Anglo-Danish parting wish, “ good 
bye,” good dwelling to you, which began to prevail 
when those marauders were so fortunate as to 
obtain fixed settlements, and mingle with the 
Saxons. And here it may be a pardonable 
digression to point out an error which most of us 
may have heard, respecting the origin of ‘ good 
bye.” It has been considered as a contraction of 
“God be with you.” In this case it could only 
have been introduced after Christianity. But we 
have beside what was then introduced into our 
language, viz. “ God bless you:” and in some 
instances we have still “God be with you,” used 
at the same time. The contraction is therefore use- 
less, and obsolete as far as its meaning goes, pro- 
vided it be such a contraction. But “bye” is not 
an obsolete word yet. We have ‘‘bye” ways— 
ways leading to a bye, town, or dwelling. Our 
term “highway,” was originally applied to Roman 
military roads, and well expresses their charac- 
ter; while “bye road,” was similarly applied to 
Roman vicinal roads, and also equally well ex- 
presses their character. “Bye” is a Danish word 
still common in the names of places in the north 
of the kingdom where the Danes settled. We have 
