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spread , and the population having patronymics took local names , and so did many of the old Englishy while others of the latter pre ^ eCTed the clan names . Thus we may conciliate the theories and the facts , and trace the succession of the old clan names to these days ; and it is quite possible there are many ainoiig the English at thi § day , vyith the names of theclan which first appeared im & years ago , as there are desceridants of the Irish plans which are of longer settlement in these islands .
For the purposes of the present inquiry , the endeavour must be made to exclude the surnames taken from places and consider only the tribual or clan names of ancient origin . On the grounds already stated , it is impossible accurately to define these , but there is no reason to suppose that the number of ferhilies was more than a few hundreds . That the members of one clan
occupied a district by theinselyes , as supposed by Eemble , there is no evidence to show y nor that a clan belonged exclusiyely to one nation , as the English or Angles or the Saxons . On the contrary , the clans were mixed up together all over the country , and the same clans or tire majority of the clans , took a share in every distinct invasion or settlement It is an error to suppose that the East Saxons , or the East English , were nations , for the evidence of the Chronicles shows that * in these
invasions a number of those which we understand as tne Germanic nations took part . Bede , in a very remarkable passage , which has not yet received adequate elucidation , says , in the ninth chapter of the fifth book of his Ecclesiastical History , that the Saxons , Angles ^ and Jutes , of whom he spoke in the fifteenth chapter of the tenth hook as the invaders of Britain , derived their origin from nations in Germany , such as the Erizians , the Bugians , the Danes , the Huns , the old Saxons , and the Boruchuari . This list , from including Bugians , Danes , and Huns , has met with little attention .
The Erizians are acknowledged to have taken a share in all English transactions , " from the invasion almost to the Norman accession . The Rugians I consider to be a branch of the Waring—to be the same as are by Nestor called Waring Russians , and who in the English invasion of . Slavonia , gave to it the name of Russia , which is now the only vestige of that great historical event . The Waring I have identified with the Varini , Werini , Bariggoi or Warangheims , as will
be shown at length , The names of the Varini and Ilugii too arc found associated , as are constantly associated the names of the Augli and Varini . As there was at a later period a Slavonic population of Paigians , this mention by Bede is looked upon as one of his errors ; although when properly examined it only affords evidence of his accuracy .
TMb Danes , I consider , are likewise justly enumerated by Bede among the people of English kin ; for what is now known as Denmark was first held by an Auglo-Huevian population , and on the decline
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Anglo-Saxon History Illustrated By Topog...
spread , and the population having patronymics took local names , and so did many of the old Englishy while others of the latter pre ^ eCTed the clan names . Thus we may conciliate the theories and the facts , and trace the succession of the old clan names to these days ; and it is quite possible there are many ainoiig the English at thi § day , vyith the names of theclan which first appeared im & years ago , as there are desceridants of the Irish plans which are of longer settlement in these islands .
For the purposes of the present inquiry , the endeavour must be made to exclude the surnames taken from places and consider only the tribual or clan names of ancient origin . On the grounds already stated , it is impossible accurately to define these , but there is no reason to suppose that the number of ferhilies was more than a few hundreds . That the members of one clan
occupied a district by theinselyes , as supposed by Eemble , there is no evidence to show y nor that a clan belonged exclusiyely to one nation , as the English or Angles or the Saxons . On the contrary , the clans were mixed up together all over the country , and the same clans or tire majority of the clans , took a share in every distinct invasion or settlement It is an error to suppose that the East Saxons , or the East English , were nations , for the evidence of the Chronicles shows that * in these
invasions a number of those which we understand as tne Germanic nations took part . Bede , in a very remarkable passage , which has not yet received adequate elucidation , says , in the ninth chapter of the fifth book of his Ecclesiastical History , that the Saxons , Angles ^ and Jutes , of whom he spoke in the fifteenth chapter of the tenth hook as the invaders of Britain , derived their origin from nations in Germany , such as the Erizians , the Bugians , the Danes , the Huns , the old Saxons , and the Boruchuari . This list , from including Bugians , Danes , and Huns , has met with little attention .
The Erizians are acknowledged to have taken a share in all English transactions , " from the invasion almost to the Norman accession . The Rugians I consider to be a branch of the Waring—to be the same as are by Nestor called Waring Russians , and who in the English invasion of . Slavonia , gave to it the name of Russia , which is now the only vestige of that great historical event . The Waring I have identified with the Varini , Werini , Bariggoi or Warangheims , as will
be shown at length , The names of the Varini and Ilugii too arc found associated , as are constantly associated the names of the Augli and Varini . As there was at a later period a Slavonic population of Paigians , this mention by Bede is looked upon as one of his errors ; although when properly examined it only affords evidence of his accuracy .
TMb Danes , I consider , are likewise justly enumerated by Bede among the people of English kin ; for what is now known as Denmark was first held by an Auglo-Huevian population , and on the decline