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2 _The account of Hengist's and Horsa's landing, has elements which are fictional rather than historical_--a Thus ”e find Hengist and Horsa approaching the coasts of Kent in three keels, and aelli effecting a landing in Sussex with the same number, we are reration of Ostrogoths,[4] Visigoths, and Gepidae, also in three vessels, to the land”

b The ist is told _totidem verbis_, by Widukind[5] and others, of the Old Saxons in Thuringia

c Geoffry of Monist obtained from the Britons asthe hide into thongs, enclosed a ranters intended, on which he erected Thong Castle--a tale too fahout thethe Old Saxons, the tradition is in reality the saht variety of detail In their story, a lapfull of earth is purchased at a dear rate froian; the coain; but he sows the purchased earth upon a large space of ground, which he claims, and, by the aid of his coians”--Keland”

3 _There is direct evidence in favour of their having been Gerland anterior to_ AD 447--a At the close of the Marcomannic war,[7] Marcus Antoninus transplanted a number of Ger with Roions under Valentinian[8]

c _The Notitia utriusque Imperii_,[9] of which the latest date is half a century earlier than the epoch of Hengist, mentions, as an officer of state, the _Coovern the coast from Portsmouth to the Wash

-- 5 _Inference_--As it is nearly certain, that 449 AD is _not_ the date of the first introduction of German tribes into Britain, we inal British began at an _earlier_ period than the one usually adradual_ than is usually supposed

Perhaps, if we substitute the middle of the _fourth_, instead of the middle of the _fifth_ century, as the epoch of the Gerrations into Britain, we shall not be far from the truth

CHAPTER II

GERMANIC ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE--THE GERMANIC AREA OF THE PARTICULAR GERMANS WHO INTRODUCED IT--EXTRACT FROM BEDA

-- 6 Out of the numerous tribes and nations of Germany, _three_ have been more especially mentioned as the chief, if not the exclusive, sources of the present English population of Great Britain These are the _Jutes_, the _Saxons_, and the _Angles_

-- 7 Now, it is by no ood reasons can be given for believing that the Angles and Saxons were the same people, and that no such nation as the _Jutes_ ever left Germany to settle in Great Britain

-- 8 The chief authority for the division of the German invaders into the three nations justextract from his ”Ecclesiastical History” It requires particular attention, and will form the basis of much criticism, and frequently be referred to

”Advenerunt autem de tribus Gerlis, Jutis De Jutaruens quae Vectam tenet insulam et ea quae usque hodie in provincia Occidentalium Saxonum Jutarum natio nominatur, posita contra ipsaione quae nunc Antiquorunominatur, venere Orientales Saxones, Meridiani Saxones, Occidui Saxones Porro de Anglis hoc est de illa patria quae Angulus dicitur, et ab illo tempore usque hodie manere desertus inter provincias Jutaruli, Merci, tota Northanhyentiulorum populi sunt orti”--”Historia Ecclesiastica,” i 15

-- 9 This ritten about AD 731, 131 years after the introduction of Christianity, and nearly 300 after the supposed landing of Hengist and Horsa in AD 449

It is the first passage which contains the nales_ or the _Jutes_ Gildas, rote more than 150 years earlier, mentions only the _Saxons_--”ferocissimi illi nefandi noe which all subsequent writers have either translated or adopted Thus it re-appears in Alfred, and again in the Saxon Chronicle[10]

”Of Jotum comon Cantware and Wihtware, aet is seo yt haet Iutnacyun Of Eald-Seaxule cole, Middel-Angle, Mearce, and ealle Norymbra”

Froht, that is, the race that noells in Wight, and that tribe ast the West-Saxons which is yet called the Jute tribe From the Old-Saxons came the East-Saxons, and South-Saxons, and West-Saxons Froles, land (which has since always stood waste betwixt the Jutes and Saxons) cales, Mercians, and all the Northumbrians

-- 10 A portion of these extracts will now be sub the state the _Jutes_

The words _usque hodie--Jutarum natio nominatur_ constitute contemporary and unexceptionable evidence to the existence of a people with a name like that of the _Jutes_ in the time of Beda--or AD 731

The exact nalo-Saxon Chronicle is in favour of the notion that it began with the sounds of j and u, in other words that it was _Jut_

But the ter followed by ea

Thirdly, the forest the likelihood of the nae in asserius[11] which gives us the form _Gwith_--”Mater” (of Alfred the Great) ”quoque ejusdeenio, nobilis et genere; quae erat filia Oslac fais; qui Oslac Gothus erat natione, ortus eniur, duorum fratrum et etiam comitum, qui accepta potestate Vectis insulae ab avunculo suo Cerdic rege et Cynric filio suo, consobrino eorum, paucos Britones ejusdem insulae accolas, quos in ea invenire potuerant, in loco qui dicitur, _Gwithgaraburgh_ occiderunt, caeteri enierant”--asserius, ”De Gestis Alfredi Regis”