44 Dr Daniel Wilson on the Intrusion of 



in their wake, having been obliged to pursue a north-western 

 course till they reached the shores of the older Baltic, the 

 Kymri, and no doubt also the Belgae, penetrated still further 

 to the westward, while their Scytho-Sarmatian followers re- 

 mained at the Vistula. The Germanic nomades, beginning 

 their intrusive migration long after their precursors had 

 consolidated their power, and occupied their borders with the 

 increased numbers of a settled population, were compelled to 

 pursue the still more northern, but less encumbered course ; 

 while being, in the common movement towards the west, driven 

 to the shores of the Baltic near Livonia and Esthonia, they 

 crossed to the Islands, to Gottland, Oland, and to Scania, and 

 there settling themselves in the great northern Scandinavian 

 peninsula, where archaeological research proves them to have 

 displaced an older Allophylian population, they nursed their 

 young strength, preparatory to their intrusion on the historic 

 area of ancient Europe. 



Archaeological investigations contribute many valuable ac- 

 cessories to such ethnological inquiries, and specially tend to 

 confirm the conclusions here advanced relative to the late arrival 

 of the Germanic nomades in Western Europe. This is strik- 

 ingly shown by the abrupt transition from the aboriginal stone 

 relics to the evidences of the Metallurgic arts of the last 

 Pagan period disclosed in the sepulchral depositories of 

 Northern Scandinavia.* 



Having established the Germanic nomades as a settled 

 people in the northern peninsula still occupied by one great 

 branch of the Germanic stock, the course pursued by them 

 when they in turn became the aggressors is abundantly mani- 

 fest, even now, on the map of Europe. Passing over into 

 Denmark, and to a great extent displacing and dispossessing 

 the Kymri, they entered Central Europe from that point 

 d'appui, penetrating like a wedge between the Gauls and the 

 Sarmatians, and gradually occupying the whole modern Ger- 

 manic area between the Elbe and the Rhine. This is the 

 movement which I conceive manifested itself by that over- 

 flowing of the Gauls into Central Italy, by means of which 

 they, and thus also, indirectly, the Germanic aggressors on 



* Vide Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, p. 358. 



