Domesday and Feudal Statistics 



Goths, 

 Gutce, 

 Got hones, 

 and 

 Gothini. 



Dani, 

 Suethans, 

 and 



Snethidi, 

 not neces- 

 sarily 

 Gothic. 

 Angli and 

 Suevi ; 

 their loca- 

 tion. 

 Regnar 

 Lodbrog in 

 English 

 History, 

 A.D. 870 ; 

 his speech 

 under- 

 stood. 

 Deficiency 

 of the 

 Collection 

 of the Man 

 Hist. Brit. 

 as to early 

 evidences 

 of the 

 English 

 races. 



Eeda counts as Germani Angles, Saxons, Frisians, Danes, etc.), 

 and to consider the Anglo-Saxons akin more particularly to 

 the Norse [leaving open the question of whether or not 

 Angulus was part of 5th century Scandinavia*], rather than to 

 the inhabitants of the Empire to which Charlemagne suc- 

 ceeded. To class Norse, Angles and Saxons as Goths of 

 Mongolia^ and the c Deutscben as Germans and presumably 

 (p. 190) Aryans, has certainly the advantage of novelty, and 

 needs but some trifling explanation [as that Confucius had, 

 with considerable foresight, instructed the Gothic races (prior 

 to their emigrations), in the speech of Germany], to become 

 impregnable ; doubtless, by an oversight (not altogether 

 irremediable) the learned author has omitted to supply from his 

 often named, and particular repository, this necessary expla- 

 nation (for a dull reader), as to language. 



* How to apply and limit the term Scandinavia, 5th cent., is beyond 

 the power of the writer to discern, but it may be observed that the 

 earlier writers make no mention of Goths in it, unless indeed the Gutce 

 (see p. ioqj, and for further illustration) of Ptolemy are held to be such : 

 at the same time that author (whose Geography ', praised for A.D. 120, 

 seems sometimes to antedate Tacitus] locates the Gut hones (within the 

 Venedi] in Sarmatia, apparently the Gothones of the Germania, who 

 live more under the constraint of monarchy than the other Germanic 

 gentes. The Gothini of Tacitus, who pay tribute, and work the iron 

 mines, were not far from the Danube ; now certain it is that Jornandes 

 (c. 552) derives the notable Goths (who overran much of S. Europe 

 from the 3rd to the 5th century) of the Danube, from Scanzia, in which 

 he locates the Suethans, Suethidi, and Dani (who also originate in it), 

 whereas the classifications of its inhabitants by later writers, render it 

 particularly doubtful that any Goths had more than mere settlement in 

 certain parts of Scandinavia. Both King Alfred and Beda consider 

 the Danes as Germanic, and derive the Angii from the Schleswic 

 district, whereas Ptolemy and Tacitus agree in esteeming the latter, as 

 of the Suevi (cf. p. iogj) a gens noted by Caesar, and occupying about 

 the Elbe, t. Strabo (c. A.D. 30), and at the time (c. A.D. 100), of the 

 two above-named writers, the former of whom (Ptolemy], does not locate 

 the Angli on the actual coast (the Saxones, for one, on the neck of the 

 Cymbric Chersonese cut them off), as does the latter (or near it, the 

 island, etc., Germania, 40) : besides the evidence for esteeming the 

 Scandinavians to be also, to a great extent of the Suevi (see p. 109;'), 

 the St. Alban's Chronicler (praised for Rog. Wendover, and Matth. 

 Paris), using some unknown Passio of St. Edmund, names the likeness 

 of the Danish to the Anglian speech, in the converse of Regnar Lodbrog, 

 with the King and Martyr (in anno 870). The Mon. Hist. Brit, (a 

 work laborious enough) concerns itself, at some length, with notices of 



the early inhabitants of Britain, but although produced at the common 



charge of the English is singularly deficient as to their originals, a line 

 of investigation which might have been esteemed just as pertinent, as 

 a collection relating to Roman subjects ; this (some illustration of the 

 Germanic races who settled in England as Angles, Danes, Norse, and 

 Saxons], the present writer hopes to essay (occasion permitting) as an 

 introduction to A History of Northumbria. 



