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/^ Tacitus) I have never seen satisfactorily determined ; but 



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English. certain it is that a very considerable proporti n of the in- 



habitants of England (t. 1086) were of Norse (chiefly Danish) 

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

 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. 



seems to confine it to the f jrmer] 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 



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



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



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



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



Dani, ^6 Dani are frequently termed Dacians, thus, Gerald de Barri, i2th 



Dacians, C ent. y 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 Snethans and Dani in Scanzia (quasi 



qfficina gentium} island : Procopiiis (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 7'htt!e y which he has only visited by the converse of those coming 



Brittia and therefrom this is that author who mentions Brittia, as inhabited by 



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



in the 6th by their king's sister against the Varni (supra) ; and as well notices of 



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



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



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



Angles, Malmesburien. (t. 1135) makes a traditional ancestor of the A. S. kings 



Danes, first a foundling in the Scanzia of Jornandes t and afterwards a ruler 



Jutes, j n siaswic (Haithaby), which may be a compilation from Ethelward 



Northmen, ( wr iting 975-1011), who states that Old Anglia was situated between 



baxons, ^ 5 axons an( j j utes (Gioti), with a capital town Slesuuic (Saxonice), 



et '*' or Haithaby (Danice], that Hengist's ancestor was Uuothen, whom the 



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



cent.) as to the latter, fund it ab extreme flavos aquiione Suevos, which 



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



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



king, whereas in the Beowulf, Scyld Scefing, is the foundling, and then 



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



