prand, (l. iv. c. 12,)
Sigebert, and the Acts of St. Gerard: but the other military relics
depend on the faith of the Gesta Anglorum post Bedam, l. ii. c. 8.]

[Footnote 39: Katona, Hist. Ducum Hungariae, p. 500, &c.]

[Footnote 40: Among these colonies we may distinguish, 1. The Chazars,
or Cabari, who joined the Hungarians on their march, (Constant. de
Admin. Imp. c. 39, 40, p. 108, 109.) 2. The Jazyges, Moravians, and
Siculi, whom they found in the land; the last were perhaps a remnant of
the Huns of Attila, and were intrusted with the guard of the borders. 3.
The Russians, who, like the Swiss in France, imparted a general name
to the royal porters. 4. The Bulgarians, whose chiefs (A.D. 956)
were invited, cum magna multitudine Hismahelitarum. Had any of those
Sclavonians embraced the Mahometan religion? 5. The Bisseni and Cumans,
a mixed multitude of Patzinacites, Uzi, Chazars, &c., who had spread
to the Lower Danube. The last colony of 40,000 Cumans, A.D. 1239, was
received and converted by the kings of Hungary, who derived from that
tribe a new regal appellation, (Pray, Dissert. vi. vii. p. 109-173.
Katona, Hist. Ducum, p. 95-99, 259-264, 476, 479-483, &c.)]

[Footnote 41: Christiani autem, quorum pars major populi est, qui ex
omni parte mundi illuc tracti sunt captivi, &c. Such was the language
of Piligrinus, the first missionary who entered Hungary, A.D. 973. Pars
major is strong. Hist. Ducum, p. 517.]

[Footnote 42: The fideles Teutonici of Geisa are authenticated in old
charters: and Katona, with his usual industry, has made a fair estimate
of these colonies, which had been so loosely magnified by the Italian
Ranzanus, (Hist. Critic. Ducum. p, 667-681.)]

III. The name of Russians [43] was first divulged, in the ninth century,
by an embassy of Theophilus, emperor of the East, to the emperor of the
West, Lewis, the son of Charlemagne. The Greeks were accompanied by the
envoys of the great duke, or chagan, or czar, of the Russians. In their
journey to Constantinople, they had traversed many hostile nations;
and they hoped to escape the dangers of their return, by requesting
the French monarch to transport them by sea to their native country. A
closer examination detected their origin: they were the brethren of
the Swedes and Normans, whose name was already odious and formidable in
France; and it might justly be apprehended, that these Russian strangers
were not the messengers of peace, but the emissaries of w