Domesday and Feudal Statistics 



Scandi- 



navian 



^ Tacitus) I have never seen satisfactorily determined ; but 



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English. X certain ** 1S triat a ver y considerable proporti n of the in- 

 habitants of England (/. 1086) were of Xorse (chiefly Danish) 

 origin, as is witnessed by D. B., the old records of fCorth- 

 umbria (which should be read with the A.S. Chron.}, and 

 other notices of the Danelaga, in addition to such evidences 

 as nomenclature ; and tho' the Normans were a compound 

 race, speaking a foreign language, it is scarcely to be sup- 

 posed it was other than the Northman element which 

 enabled them to acquire England at that period. 



The Angli 

 and 



Suiones of 

 Suevia ; 

 Dain, 

 Dacians, 



' <B ' 



Brittiaand. 

 the Varni 

 in the 6th 

 cent. 



Traditional 



kinship of 



Angles, 



Danes, 



Jutes, 



Northmen, 



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seems to confine it to the former] with a fleet, certainly in the mainland 

 of Sweden, and probably in some of the Danish isles ; beyond the 

 Suiones are the Silones (presumably a Finnish tribe, N. of Upsala, and 

 near the ancient city of Sictona), and here Suevia ends [this writer, be 

 it observed, classes both Angli and Suiones as Suevi, and calls the 

 Baltic, the Suevian Sea] ; Ptolemy (120 or before) places the Dauciones 

 an( j Gutce in the island of Scandia [whether Danes and Jutes, or not, 

 jjj e )ani are frequently termed Dacians, thus, Gerald de Barri, i2th 

 cent., notes the corruption of the Northern speech by the frequent 

 invasions of Dacians, and Norwegians, and Win, f. Alan, 1166, owes 

 one knt. in Norfolk at Carlefli, against the Dacians, there being no 

 immediate connexion with a nation on the Danube in either case] : 

 Jornandes (6th cent.) locates the Sitethans and Dani in Scatizia (quasi 

 ojficina gentium) island : Piocopitis (6th cent. ), seems to place the Danes 

 about Denmark, near the Varni (extending to the N. Ocean, and 

 separated from the Franks by the Rhine) ; calls Scandinavia, the island 

 of 7hu.'e, which he has only visited by the converse of those coming 

 therefrom this is that author who mentions firiltia, as inhabited by 

 Angles, Frisians and Britons, an expedition by sea of the former, led 

 by their king's sister against the Varni (supra) ; and as well notices of 

 British legations, lack of cavalry and horsemanship, navy, marriage 

 ((/ Tacitus}, as various poetical legends : Beda (c. 730) gives the Danes 

 as one of the nations from whom Angles and Saxons derive ; and Win. 

 Malmesburien. (t. ffjs) makes a traditional ancestor of the A. S. king-, 

 first a foundling in the Scatizia of Jornandes, and afterwards a ruler 

 JQ Slaswic (Haithaby), which may be a compilation from Ethelu>ard 

 ( wr jti n g 975-1011), who slates that Old Anglia was situated between 

 ^ e Saxons and Jutes (Gioti), with a capital town Slesuuic (Saxonice), 

 or Haithaby (Danice), that Hengist's ancestor was Uuothen, whom the 

 Danes, Korthmanni and Suevi, worship to this day, citing Lucan (ist 

 cent.) as to the latter, fundit ab extreme flavos a>jut7o>ie Suevos, which 

 corroborates Tacitus ; and in another passage makes Scef (the son of 

 Scyld), Cerdic's igth ancestor, land on the island of Scant and become 

 king, whereas in the Beowulf, Scyld Scaring, is the found'ing, and then 

 king of the gar-Denum (spear-bearing Danes). 



