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arii_; probably also in _Teutonoarii_ instead of _Teutoni_, _Chattuari_ instead of _Chatti_. The principal seats of these _Angrarii_ were, as we saw, between the Rhine and Elbe, but Tacitus(23) knows of _Anglii_, _i.e._ _Angrii_, east of the Elbe; and an offshoot of the same Saxon tribe is found very early in possession of that famous peninsula between the Schlei and the Bay of Flensburg on the eastern coast of Schleswig,(24) which by Latin writers was called _Anglia_, _i.e._ _Angria_. To derive the name of _Anglia_ from the Latin _angulus_,(25) corner, is about as good an etymology as the kind-hearted remark of St. Gregory, who interpreted the name of _Angli_ by _angeli_. From that Anglia, the _Angli_, together with the _Saxons_ and _Juts_, migrated to the British Isles in the fifth century, and the name of the _Angli_, as that of the most numerous tribe, became in time the name of _Englaland_.(26) In the Latin laws ascribed to King Edward the Confessor, a curious supplement is found, which states "that the _Juts_ (_Guti_) came formerly from the noble blood of the _Angli_, namely, from the state of _Engra_, and that the English came from the same blood. The Juts, therefore like the Angli of Germany, should always be received in England as brothers, and as citizens of the realm, because the Angli of England and Germany had always intermarried, and had fought together against the Danes."(27) Like the Angli of Anglia, the principal tribes clustering round the base of the Cimbric peninsula, and known by the general name of _Northalbingi_ or _Transalbiani_, also _Nordleudi_, were all offshoots of the Saxon stem. Adam of Bremen (2, 15) divides them into _Tedmarsgoi_, _Holcetae_, and _Sturmarii_. In these it is easy to recognize the modern names of _Dithmarschen_, _Holtseten_ or _Holsten_, and _Stormarn_. It would require more space than we can afford, were we to enter into the arguments by which Grimm has endeavored to identify the _Dithmarschen_ with the _Teutoni_, the _Stormarn_ with the _Cimbri_, and the _Holsten_ with the _Harudes_. His arguments, if not convincing, are at least highly ingenious, and may be examined by those interested in these matters, in his "History of the German Language," pp. 633-640. For many centuries the Saxon inhabitants of those regions have had to bear the brunt of the battle between the Scandinavian and the German races. From the days when the German Emperor Otho I. (died 973) hurled his
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