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that the Franks, under Charles Martel, or Charle- 

 magne, are related to have lost their rear guard, with 

 Roland, and nearly all the heroes of the French cycle 

 of romance. They fell at the pass of Roncesvalles 

 more, it is said, by the swords of the Asturian moun- 

 taineers, than by the Arabian cavalry, which are not 

 likely to have been suffered to enter the mountain 

 fastnesses of a small, warlike, and justly distrustful 

 Christian state. On the north of the western Pyre- 

 nees, the Vascones, though early overlaid by Celtic 

 tribes, that the Tarbelli, and it may be the Venom inn i 

 and Aturi, were nevertheless of the same nation.* 



THE LIGURTANS OR LLOGRIANS.t 



IN the eastern Pyrenees there was another people 

 equally foreign to the Celtse, with affinities which ap- 

 pear to unite it with the Finnic family ; and it was 

 called the Ligurian and Llogrian (the Llogrwys of 

 the Celtse) ; probably originally the same as the Greek 



. * Consult Surita. Both Quintilian and Prudentius were 

 natives of Iberian Calagurris ; no doubt sprung from Ro- 

 man colonists. 



t They were acknowledged to be Hyperboreans by des- 

 cent, since Eschylus makes Prometheus instruct Hercules 

 in the road towards the garden of the Hesperides ; he must 

 pass Caucasus, then encounter the fierce and innumerable 

 Ligurians, and arrive at a high northern latitude. His 

 imagery looks like an extract from Finnic sagas, the Cale- 

 \vala or Scandinavian Edda. Bailley notices this passage, 

 see Strabo Geogr. 



