UNIVERSAL ERUDITION; 



is comprifed under thofe of Sweden, Ruflia and 

 Poland. 



XXIV. XVI. The Hiftory of the kingdom of 

 Denmark. If we regard what is faid, and ftill 

 more, what they have not fcrupled to write, we 

 mud begin this hiftory with Gomer II. great- 

 grandfon of Japhet, who was the firft that in- 

 habited Cimbrica Cheribneius, or Cimbria, 1800 

 years after the creation of the world, 193 years 

 after the deluge, and 2098 before Chrift. This 

 country, they fay, was governed, at firft, by 

 eleven luccefiive judges, the firft of whom was 

 cotemporary with Abraham : that in the year 

 of the world 2910, and 1058 before Chrift, 

 Dan founded the kingdom of Denmark, and 

 called it after his name : that it had twenty-fix 

 Kings, all of whofe names they know, and their 

 principal aftions, to the time of Dan III. who 

 began to reign 141 years before the common 

 era: that no years before this epoch, there was 

 a great migration of the Cimbri and Teutoni, 

 who penetrated into Italy , but were there al- 

 moft entirely extirpated by the Romans , and at 

 this time it is that the ancient hiftory of Den- 

 mark ends, that is, about feventy-four years be- 

 fore the birth of Chrift. That of the middle 

 age begins with Fridlef I. furnamed the expedi- 

 tious, who was the twenty feventh king ; and 

 continues till Sigefroi, whofe reign began about 

 the year 760, and ended with the eighth cen- 

 tury. This age comprehends a fuccefiion of 



thirty- 



