[216]. See Chron. Picts and Scots, pp. 4 and 24.
[217]. Chronicles of the Picts and Scots, p. 319.
[218]. 602 Cath Cuile Cail in quo Fiachaidh mac Baedan victor erat.
608 Bass Fiachach chraich mic Baedan la Cruithnachu, p. 68.
[219]. Chron. Picts and Scots, p. 52.
[220]. The word is Ruirig, plural of Ruire, a champion, a knight; also Dominus, a lord.
[221]. Bede, Ec. Hist. B. i. c. xv.
[222]. Nennius implies in a part of his legend of Hengist and Guorthegirn that Hengist’s people came ‘de insula Oghgul,’ which is probably Heligoland.
[223]. There are two poems which preserve Saxon traditions connected with the mainland. These are the Battle of Finnesburgh, and Beowulf. Kemble considers that they were nearly contemporary with the events they relate, and not far removed from the coming of Hengist and Horsa into Britain. They describe a war between Hengist, an Eoten and vassal of the king of Denmark, and Finn, son of Folcwald, king of the Frisians. Nennius makes Finn, son of Folcgwald, grandfather of his Woden.
[224]. Zeuss, Die Deutschen und die Nachbarstämme, p. 141. Nennius has ‘Omne genus Ambronum, id est Aldsaxonum Saxonum;’ and again, ‘Et nunquam addiderunt Saxones Ambronem ut a Pictis vectigal exigerent.’