538 On the Settlement of the Anglo-Saxons in Britain. 
in his dominions, without employing un- 
necessary severity. It is said that the 
people chose him their king of their own 
accord. During the whole of his reign 
he was active andin arms. Some years 
after the arrival of Ilda, Cenric fought a 
great battle with the Britons, near Salis- 
bury, and put them to flight. 
At the close of Rolf’s reign (A. D. 552) 
the Britons still possessed Wales and 
Cornwall (according to their present 
names), and the vreater part of Mercia 
and Deira. All the rest of the country 
was in the hands of the Saxons, the An- 
gles, and the Jutes. The Angles, espe- 
cially, had emigrated to Britain in such 
numbers, that it is testified by Beda and 
the British Nennius (the former of whom 
died in the year 735), that the native 
country and aslands of these people were 
still without inhabitants in their time. 
These words, however, must not be taken 
in too literal a sense, otherwise reimains 
could not exist to this day of the Anglo- 
Saxon language, and similarity with the 
present English, inthe country of Angeln, 
in the duchy of Sleswic; but so much is 
certain, that the population of the country 
was greatly thinned, and that this circum- 
stance rendered the conquest of it easy to 
Rolf. By degrees it was repeopled by 
Jutes, whence it received the name of 
South Jutland, as Jutland proper from 
that time was called North Jutland. 
(V. I. p. 844-346). 
In the year 560 Célla established the 
kingdom of Deira, which was afterwards 
united to that of .Bernicja in the person 
of Athalrick (A. D. 590), and both 
together called Northumberland; for 
though they were after this separated se- 
veral times, yet they were at length unit- 
ed for ever by Oswin (A. D. 651). CE 
descended from Soemil*, and was tae 
* This Soemil was the son of Sverting, 
king of the Saxons, in the present Holstein, 
who died in the year 450. Sverting, with 
another Saxon prince, to the south of the 
Elbe, had been defeated by Frode IV. of 
Denmark, who compelled them both to paya 
yearly tribute, and took the daughten of 
Sverting for his concubine. He, exasperated 
at this insulr, watched an opportunity for re- 
venge, and treacherously murdered Frode, 
but lost his life in the perpetration of this 
act. He left a great number of sons, besides 
another dauzhter, who was married to Iingel, 
the son. and successor of Frode. This 
prince, deviating from’ the principles of his 
age, and impiously neglecting wkat was then 
regarded as the first of all the duties of a 
ns } FOND) SENET 2 oh SOD Baa 
son, to revenge the death of his father, pass~ 
[July 3, 
son of Yffe or Uffe, a gallant warrior and 
chief. He much enlarged his kingdom, 
and united to it Lindsey, by marrying 
Bubba, the daughter of Ceadbed*. From 
that time Lindsey followed the fate of 
the Northumbrian kingdom, until it was 
conquered by Penda, king of Mercia, 
about the year 630, AsSvemil is said to 
have settled in Northumberland, I sup- 
pose that his descendants had remained 
there, and that (Ella was born in 
England. The same is my opinion re- 
specting Creoda, who established the 
kingdom of Mercia, and Uffa, who was 
the first king of East-Anglia. (Vol. L. 
p. 441-442. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
CONTRIBUTIONS ¢@ ENGLISH SYNONYMY. 
High. Tall. Grand. Lofty. Broad. 
Wide. Thick. Large. Gross. Bulky. 
Stout. Huge. | 
LL these words describe size above 
the average: the first four are mostly 
applied to magnitude perpendicularly 
extended; the second four to magmitude 
laterally extended ; and the third four to 
massy extent. 
High, was originally the same word 
as hill; a high man was a hill of a man; 
a high church, a hill of a church. When 
the Lilliputians called Gulliver the man-~ 
mountain; they employed the same 
: metaphor as our forefathers -in coining 
the adjective high. Great part of the 
sensible idea has been gradually omitted ; 
the term is become very abstract, and 
now retains only the narrow image of 
jength stretching upwards. ‘Tallness is 
a height which results from accretion ; 
ed his life in peace and voluptuous indolence, 
and even permitted the sons of Sverting to 
obtain the greatest influence and honours at 
his court. But roused at length from his Je- 
thargy, by Starkodder, a famous Danish 
champion, he for some time totally changed 
his behaviour, and pursued these his here- 
ditary enemies, with such vigeurand cruelty, 
that twelve of them lost their lives. ‘* Soe- 
mil (the author relates) v. i. p. 262, escaped 
from the general slaughter of his brothers, 
and taking refuge in Britain, settled in Nor- 
thumberland, where G2lla, the first king of 
Deira, descended in the fifth degree from 
him.” = Trans!. 
* Ceadbed was also engaged in some trans- 
actions with the famous Amleth (Hamleth), 
a jutish prince, the same whose name has 
been immortalized by the tragedy of Shale- 
Speare, Zravs/, 
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grandeur, 
