[9] Compare with the Anglo-Saxon adjectives in [§ 85].
[10] The syllables vulg-, and Belg-, are quite as much alike as Teuton-, and Deut-sch; yet how unreasonable it would be for an Englishman to argue that he was a descendant of the Belgæ because he spoke the Vulgar Tongue. Mutatis mutandis, however, this is the exact argument of nine out of ten of the German writers.
[11] Tacitus, De Mor. Germ. 40.
[12] And on the west of the Old Saxons is the mouth of the river Elbe and Friesland; and then north-west is the land which is called Angle and Sealand, and some part of the Danes.
[13] He sailed to the harbour which is called Hæðum, which stands betwixt the Wends (i.e. the Wagrian Slaves, for which see [§ 42]) and Saxons, and Angle, and belongs to Denmark ... and two days before he came to Hæðum, there was on his starboard Gothland, and Sealand, and many islands. On that land lived Angles, before they hither to the land came.
[14] Zeus, in voc.
[15] Zeus, in voc.
[16] Zeus, in voc.
[17] See G. D. S. Vol. ii. II.
[18] Zeus, p. 492.