"Mid Englum ic wæs, and mid Swæfum—
With Engles 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. Jutæ.