[978] Livy, xxxviii. 24.
[979] Italy has declared herself Una. But without considering a multitude of origins, one for almost every province, she is peopled in our modern day by two races, contrasting greatly with each other. The Po is the frontier, dividing the Græco-Latin Italians to the south from the Gallic and Frankish Italians (Milanese, Piedmontese, &c.) to the north. The latter, originally Barbari, are the backbone of the modern kingdom: the Southerners are the weak point.
[980] Bell. Gall. vi. 24.
[981] Jähns (in his Plates 27–30) unites ‘Kelten und Germanien, Germanien und Kelten.’
[982] De Mor. Germ., cap. 6.
[983] So we find the god Tyr or Tuisco (regent of Tuesday), the Monthu or Mars of the North, figured in the Runes as a barbed spear ᛏ (resembling the planetary emblem of Mars). He afterwards became the Sword-god. From the Tyr-rune is derived ᛠ Er (= hêru, the sword), or Aer, which resembles the Greek ἄορ, and which Jacob Grimm connects with Ἄρης, æs and Eisen (Jähns, p. 14).
[984] The older derivation is from ferrea. Jähns (p. 407) gives a host of others—Bram (thorn, bramble); Pfriem (punch, awl); Brame (a border, edging); ramen (to aim, strike), &c., &c.
[985] Arms, &c., p. 419.
[986] Annals, ii. cap. 14.
[987] De Mor. G. cap. 6.