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well attribute it to the Danes, as the 
Angles, and particularly the Jutes, were 
then already Danifh, which efpecially may 
be feen, befides, from the fimilarity of the 
languages ; alio from the cénformity of 
the ancient laws and manners ef the An- 
glo-Saxons with ours. Thus King Ina, 
whe died in 727, enjoins what punifhment ~ 
is to be infli€ted on fuch as raife a quarrel 
inthe houfe of the king, in the church, 
im the open field, at the table, and nearly 
all the punifhments confit im fines, the 
the fame as with us. Fines for murder 
are likewife found in the more ancient 
laws of King Ethelbert in Kent, who 
died in 613. Asto the facrednefs and 
the peace of the churches, it may feem-+to 
eriginate from the Chriftians 5; however, 
eur anceftors alfo did not fuffer any thing 
indecent in 'treir temples, as may be feen 
‘from Frithiof’s Saga. 
it is alfo obfervable, that a gang of rob- 
bers till the number of 7 are called 
thieves, till 35 Aloth, and above that 
number an army. With us every number 
to 20 had its particular name, and “12 
was cal'ed tegiod, which 1s the fame word 
as lod, loth, Floth; after 20 every tenth 
number had its name, and 100 were called 
an army. 
But to return to the conqueft, it fhews, 
Hike fo many other’, how vangerous it is 
toa couniry to extend its power too far, 
and fubdue kingdoms-that are greater fian 
the mother-ccuntry 5 for Anglia and Jut- 
Jand were onty weakened by thefe con- 
quefts, and their fons afterwards grew 
‘much above their heads, having no more 
«connexion with them. Therefore we find 
that the Dances and the Engiifh in the iub- 
f{equent times waged many and horrible 
wars with each other, pf which the ground 
has‘no doubi been this, that the kings of 
Denmark, as the lords of Jutland and 
Anglia, infifted that the acquifitions of 
tisie people cught to belong to them. 
After this emigration there are found in 
the two hiVenine. the Danith and Englifh, 
not only traces ofa fimilarity of language i 
even to this day, when more than 1300 
years have elapfed, ‘traces which are mott 
firikirgly perceived in-the {mall ccuntry 
called Anglia, near the city of Slefwic, 
but there are ‘ious alfo traces of confcr- 
mity of cuftoms ; for initance, judgment 
by twelve men, (jumes,) which ts fill re- 
tained in England, but abolifhed with 
us.* . Our-anceltors brought their religion 
* ‘This cuftom is of the greate% antiquity 
in the North, end owed its eftablifhment to 
Oding Wher (about anno 50 A. C.) he fet- 
Settlement of the Anglo-Saxons in Britain. 
In the fame law ’ 
[May t, 
and manners with them to Britain, and 
made the names of Thor and Odin fora 
time as much revered there as they were 
in the North. The force with which Henge 
and Hers, who were fuberdinate kings 
in Avglia, and defcended from the Saxon 
Odin,* firit came to Britain, was ‘but in- 
confiderable, 
tled in Sweden, on the tanks of the lake 
Malaren, the principal mea of his company 
were twelve, according to the number and 
the names of the great Northern gods. Of 
thefe twelve Qdin conftituted a fociety of 
judges ; thence it was afterwards continued ° 
to have twelve judges.or twelve men to judge 
in every cafe. In the time of Regnar Lod- 
brok. king ef Deamark, who died in 795, 
this inftitution feems to have gone into ne~ 
glect, for it is found that he re-eftablifhed it, 
ordering that twelve wife men fhould judge 
in all caufes. Hence we alfo find that the 
number of twelve was much ufed in the 
North in taking oaths and on other folemu 
occafions. 
* The Saxon Odin: 
Hugleik ; but heis alfo known by that of 
Angul, becaufe he governed the Angles. 
He was the fon ef Oluf, king of Leire, wio 
defcended from Gdin by Skjold. Hugleik 
had a fifter married to Dan, king of Scanen, 
frum which country the Dantth nameand née 
tion originally fprung. This Dan dethroaed 
the father of Hugleik, and deprived him cf 
his paternal kingdem. But having after 
wards fubdued futland and Anglia in which 
he was not a little affited by the valour of 
his injured brother-in-law, he beftewed upon 
him the latter of thefe countries as an indem-= 
nification, partly alfo with an intention to 
fecure the fucceffion of Leire to his owr 
iffue. Thus Rugleik, a Danith prince, be- 
came the king of the Angles, fubordinate 
however to Leire. Renowned for his valour 
before, he acquired ftiill greater fame by his 
achievements after that time. He did not, 
however, excel only in the arts of war, but 
alfo in thofe of peace. He took up his refi- 
dence in the city of Slefwic. Thither he 
went with a great number cf his countrymen 
from the Danifh iflands, whom he fettled atid 
intermixed withthe Angles and Saxons. He 
aie and eitablithed firmly, not only 
among the Angles, butalfo among the Jutes 
and the Saxons, the Odinian dgtrine and 
waorfhip ; and partly by aNfances, partly by 
the itri€ter ties of religion and affinity, he 
founded a friendfhip and cemented a confede- 
racy among thofe three nations, which latted 
fit Athol “tio hundred years after, and the 
confequences of which were eminently feen’ 
in their fubfequent enterprizes upon England. 
One thing more, remarkable indeed in that 
age, diitinguifhed his government,—he ene 
couraged agriculture. Having acquired foch 
His proper name was . 
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renown, and doae fuch great things, and, ~~ 
befides, ~ 
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