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| CHAPTER I. |
| Preliminary Remarks.—Present Populations of the BritishIsles.—Romans, &c.—Pre-historic Period.—The Irish Elk.—How farContemporaneous with Man.—Stone Period.—Modes of Sepulture.—ThePhysical Condition of the Soil.—Its Fauna.—Skulls of theStone Period.—The Bronze Period.—Gold Ornaments.—Alloys andCastings.—How far Native or Foreign.—Effect of the Introductionof Metals.—Dwellings. | [1] |
| CHAPTER II. |
| Authorities for the Earliest HistoricalPeriod.—Herodotus.—Aristotle.—Polybius.—Onomacritus.—DiodorusSiculus.—Strabo.—Festus Avienus.—Ultimate sources.—Damnonii.—PhœnicianTrade.—The Orgies.—South-Eastern Britons of Cæsar.—The Detailsof his Attacks.—The Caledonians of Galgacus. | [38] |
| CHAPTER III. |
| Origin of the Britons.—Kelts of Gaul.—The Belgæ.—WhetherKeltic or German.—Evidence of Cæsar.—Attrebates, Belgæ, Remi,Durotriges and Morini, Chauci and Menapii. | [58] |
| CHAPTER IV.[vi] |
| The Picts.—List of Kings.—Penn Fahel.—Aber and Inver.—ThePicts probably, but not certainly, Britons. | [76] |
| CHAPTER V. |
| Origin of the Gaels.—Difficulties of its Investigation.—NotElucidated by any Records, nor yet by Traditions.—Arguments fromthe Difference between the British and Gaelic Languages.—TheBritish Language spoken in Gaul.—The Gaelic not known to bespoken in any part of the Continent.—Lhuyd's Doctrine.—TheHibernian Hypothesis.—The Caledonian Hypothesis.—Postulates. | [83] |
| CHAPTER VI. |
| Roman Influences.—Agricola.—The Walls and Ramparts of Adrian,Antoninus, and Severus.—Bonosus.—Carausius.—The ConstantianFamily.—Franks and Alemanni in Britain.—Foreign Elements in theRoman Legions. | [90] |
| CHAPTER VII. |
| Value of the Early British Records.—True and Genuine TraditionsRare.—Gildas.—Beda.—Nennius.—Annales Cambrenses.—Differencebetween Chronicles and Registers.—Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.—IrishAnnals.—Value of the Accounts of the Fifth and SixthCenturies.—Questions to which they apply. | [104] |
| CHAPTER VIII. |
| [vii]The Angles of Germany: their comparative obscurity.—Notice ofTacitus.—Extract from Ptolemy.—Conditions of the AngleArea.—The Varini.—The Reudigni and other Populations of Tacitus.—TheSabalingii, &c., of Ptolemy.—The Suevi Angili.—Engle andOngle.—Original Angle Area. | [142] |
| CHAPTER IX. |
| The Saxons—of Upper Saxony—of Lower, or OldSaxony.—Nordalbingians.—Saxons of Ptolemy.—Present and AncientPopulations of Sleswick-Holstein.—North-Frisians.—ProbableOrigin of the name Saxon.—The Littus Saxonicum.—SaxonesBajocassini. | [165] |
| CHAPTER X. |
| The Angles of Germany—Imperfect Reconstruction of theirHistory—Their Heroic Age.—Beowulf.—Conquest of Anglen.—Anecdotefrom Procopius.—Their Reduction under the CarlovingianDynasty.—The Angles of Thuringia. | [200] |
| CHAPTER XI. |
| Recapitulations and Illustrations.—Propositions respecting theKeltic Character of the Original Occupants of Britain, &c.—TheRelations between the Ancient Britons and the Ancient Gauls,&c.—The Scotch Gaels.—The Picts.—The Date of the GermanicInvasions.—The names Angle and Saxon. | [219] |
| CHAPTER XII. |
| Analysis of the Germanic Populations of England.—The JuteElement Questionable.—Frisian Elements Probable.—Other GermanElements, how far Probable.—Forms in -ing. | [232] |
| CHAPTER XIII.[viii] |
| The Scandinavians.—Forms in -by: their Import andDistribution.—Danes of Lincolnshire, &c.; of East Anglia; ofScotland; of the Isle of Man; of Lancashire and Cheshire; ofPembrokeshire.—Norwegians of Northumberland, Scotland, andIreland, and Isle of Man.—Frisian forms in Yorkshire.—Bogy.—OldScratch.—The Picts possibly Scandinavian.—The Normans. | [244] |