pied the district
north east of Moravia, with the _Surpe_, that is, Serbi, Servi, on
their north, and the _Sisle_, Slusli, another Slavonic people, on the
west. This appears to be the site possessed by the Hunnic founders of
Kiow. In Helmold, Chunigord, _the city or station of the Huns_, is the
name of the part of Russia containing Kiow.[10]

To the north of Horiti, says Alfred, is _Maegtha Land_.--A Finnic
tribe, called Magyar, were settled in the 9th century in Mazovia,
whence a part of them descended into Hungary. According to Mr.
Forster, Mazovia has been called _Magan Land_; but I can find no trace
of that name. I can easily conceive, however, that _Magyar_ and _Land_
might become, in Saxon copying, Maegtha Land, for the country of the
Magyar. Elsewhere, Alfred uses Maegtha Land, the land of the Medes, for
Persia.

Is there any other printed copy of the Saxon _Orosius_ than
Barrington's? for that forbids confidence by a number of needless and
unauthorised alterations in most of the pages.

R.T. HAMPSON

[1] "La precieuse geographie d'Alfred, roi d'Angleterre."--Le
Comte J. Graeberg. _La Scandinavie Vengee_, p. 36.

[2] Cotton MSS., _Tiberius_, b. i. fol. 12b.

[3] Transl. of _Orosius_, p. 8.

[4] _Inaugural Lecture_, p. 72.

[5] _Vita Karoli Magni_, ann. 789.

[6] "Sunt et alii Slavorum populi qui inter Albiam et
Oderam degunt, sicut Heveldi, qui juxta Haliolam fluvium, et
Doxani, Liubuzzi, Wilini, et Stoderani, cum multis aliis."--_Hist.
Eccl._ p. 47, 48.

[7] _Annales Sangall. Brev._, ann. 789.--_Ann. Lauresham_, &c.

[8] _Vit. Kar. Mag._ and _Annal. Francor._, ann. 822.

[9] _Annal. Petav._, ann 789.

[10] _Chron. Slavorum_, l. i, c. 2.

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FOLK LORE.

_Omens from Cattle_.--I forward to you a _Note_, which, many years
ago, I inserted in my interleaved Brand's _Observations on Popular
Antiquities_, vol. ii. p. 519. 4to., in the hope that, as the subject
interested me _then_, it may not prove uninteresting to some _now_:--

"A bad omen seems to be drawn from _an ox or cow breaking into
a garden_. Though I laugh at the superstition, the omen was
painfully fulfilled in my case.

"About the middle of March, 1843, some cattle were driven
close to my house; and, the back door being open, _three_
got into our little bit of garden, and trampled it. When our
school-drudge came