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nations in the fifth century, being most probably borne into S]>iiin along 

 with the general current of emigration. 



The original residence of the Quadi seems to have been modern 

 Bohemia, Moravia, and Austria Proper, and they were bounded east by 

 the territory of the Jazyges, south by the Danube, north by the Carpathian 

 and the Sudeti mountains, and west by the Marcomanni. 



At a later period appeared another tribe bearing the name of Quadi, and 

 formed most probably of some of the different Suevian tribes. They 

 obtained from the Romans the strip of land lying between the rivers Marus 

 and Cusus, in Upper Hungary, and were governed by Vannius, a king 

 descended from the older Quadi. {PL 20, jig. 6, a Quade.) 



7. The Heruli. 



The Heruli were a German tribe, inhabiting Scandinavia. The Danes 

 subsequently dispossessed them of that region, when they removed to those 

 districts on the Baltic lying near the mouth of the Vistula. About the 

 time of the emperor Galienus thej^ again abandoned their homes, and 

 settled on the coast of the Black Sea, when, uniting with the Goths, they 

 lived as pirates. 



Some of the better chieftains attached themselves to the service of the 

 Romans, and constituted a special division of horse. Another company 

 undertook an invasion of Gallia, but were totally defeated by the legions 

 of Maximilian. Kear the middle of the fourth century the Heruli were 

 much crippled by the heroic Ermanarich, king of the Ostrogoths, but after 

 the fall of the Gothic empire they again rose to some eminence. In the 

 time of the emperor Anastasius they entered the Roman domains, and 

 settled in Blyricum. Justinian granted them annually a fixed sum of 

 money from the treasury, and rented lands to them in Servia, for which they 

 agreed to assist him in all his wars against the Yandals, Goths, and Persians. 

 At this period they adopted the Christian faith. Their system of religion, 

 while heathens, differed materially from that of other German tribes. Thus 

 it was considered the duty of the aged and incurably diseased to request their 

 relatives to put them to death. The death-blow was given by a stranger. 

 If a Herulian died a natural death, his widow was compelled to strangle 

 herself at the grave of her husband. {PI. '^0.,fig. 7, a Herulian.) 



8. The Britons. 



The inhabitants of Britain were a mixture of Cimri, Gaels, and Iberians. 

 At the period of Csesar's invasion the Cimri occupied the southern districts, 

 and had pushed the Gaels further north. They were in their turn 

 compelled by the Anglo-Saxons, under Hengist and Horsa (449 A.D.), to 

 emigrate to Bretagne, where they are still found. The inhabitants of 

 modern Wales are also their descendants. 



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