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istence as king of the Franks in France is strenuously denied, and, 
in any other character, is gravely doubted by the majority of French 
historians. Their judgment in this respect seems to carry criticism 
to an excess of caution. What gives it its principal countenance is 
the circumstance that history makes no mention of Pharamond on the 
occasion of Aetius’s expulsion of the Franks from Gaul in a.p. 428." 
When it is considered that this same year is that at which Prosper 
chronicles the accession of Clodio, Pharamond’s successor, and is also 
that in which the Ivish story brings Dathi to the tower of the royal 
anchorite, who had abjured his kingdom to lead a religious life in the 
Alps, the reflection will probably arise that if the writer of that story 
by his Formenus meant the king ofthe Franks, the circumstance of 
Pharamcnd’s non-appearance as an opponent of Aetius on that occa- 
sion would be not unsatisfactorily accounted for. 
Here I leave this curious inquiry, professing only to have shown 
grounds for believing that the writer of the glosses in Lebor na 
W Urdhri intended his readers to understand that such an expedition 
had been led by Dathi as far as St. Perminsberg, and that his fol- 
lowers, after his death, effected their retreat through the places in 
that neighbourhood which have been enumerated. 
NOTE ADDED IN THE PRESS. 
Since reading the above Paper, the writer learns from the Rev. 
Pfarrer C. Ricklin, Wallenstadt, that Farnor and Lunden are two 
places in that neighbourhood; the first lying in the direction of 
Quinten, on the north side of the lake; the second near Mols. The 
ease, therefore, would appear at present to stand thus. The gloss to 
Nidhre gives the names :— 
Corpar, ; ‘ . (not recognized). 
Cinni or Cingi, ; - possibly (?) the present Vangs, east of Wallenstadt. 
Fale, . ; ; ‘ 3 of Wallenstad, locally Wale- 
(stad or stadt). 
Miscal, . : 5 . (not recognized). 
Larrand, : : - apparently the present Glarus, formerly Claronc. 
Corde (elsewhere Corte), 3 An Quarten, on south shore of 
Lake Wallenstad. 
Moli, . : 3 : 5 FB Mots, east, or Hollis, west, 
of Quarten. 
Grenis, . ; B : x3 5 Grinau, at head of Lake of 
Zurich. 
Fornar, ; ‘ ‘ i re Furnor, west of Wallenstad, 
on north shore of Lake. 
buried outside of Rheims; Mabillon (Acad. des Inscrip., 11; 688), citing Humbold 
in Trithemius, makes his sepulchre at Farramont in the Vosges. 
51 On this slight foundation Moreri (Pharamond) infers very confidently that ‘‘if 
the Franks had a king of that name, it is certain (i/ est sir) that he was already 
dead when Aetius undertook this war.’’ Usher, failing his conjecture that Phara- 
mond and Theodemir were one and the same person, concludes that he must have 
been slain in this campaign. These are arbitrary ways of reconciling the elements 
of history. 
