cts of Germany; and in a similar sense it is
used by both Tacitus and Caesar. The notion of any specific connection
with the _Suevi_ of Suabia is unnecessary.

It has already been stated that in the Traveller's Song the Kingdom of
Hermanric is placed _east of Ongle_. Either this means that the one
country was east of the other, in the way that Hungary is east of the
Rhine, or else an unrecognized extension must be given to one of the
two areas.

In one part of the poem in question the form is not _Ongle_ but
_Engle_--

"Mid _E_nglum ic waes, and mid Swaefum--
With _E_ngles I was, and with Sueves."--_Line_ 121.

The result of the previous criticism is--

1. That the Angli of Germany distinguished, by the use of that form of
speech which afterwards became Anglo-Saxon, from the Slavonians of
south-eastern Holstein, Lauenburg, Luneburg, and Altmark, from the Old
Saxons of Westphalia, and from the Frisians of the sea-coast between the
Ems and Elbe, occupied, with the exceptions just suggested, the northern
two-thirds of the present Kingdom of Hanover.

2. That they were the only members of the particular section of the
German population to which they belonged, _i.e._, the section using the
Anglo-Saxon rather than the Old Saxon speech.

Their relations to the population of the Cimbric Chersonese will form
the subject of the next chapter.

FOOTNOTES:

[15] Zeuss ad vv. _Rugiani_, _Warnabi_.

[16] From the "Germania of Tacitus with Ethnological Notes."

[17] As a general rule, I believe that the combination -_ing_,
represents a German, the combination -_ign_ a Slavonic, word.

[18] In v. _Jutae_.

[19] See Chapter ix.

CHAPTER IX.

THE SAXONS--OF UPPER SAXONY--OF LOWER OR OLD SAXONY.--
NORDALBINGIANS.--SAXONS OF PTOLEMY.--PRESENT AND ANCIENT POPULATIONS
OF SLESWICK-HOLSTEIN.--NORTH-FRISIANS.--PROBABLE ORIGIN OF THE NAME
SAXON.--THE LITTUS SAXONICUM.--SAXONES BAJOCASSINI.

The ethnologist of England has to deal with a specific section of those
numerous Germans, who, in different degrees of relationship to each
other, have been known, at different times, under the name of _Saxon_; a
name which has by no means a uniform signification, a name which has
been borne by every single division and subdivision of the Teutonic
family, the Proper Goths alone excepted. At present, however, he only
knows that the counties of Es-_sex_, Sus-_sex_, and Middle-_sex_ are the
localities of the