The Ethnology of the British Islands

CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER I.
Preliminary Remarks.—Present Populations of the British Isles.—Romans, &c.—Pre-historic Period.—The Irish Elk.—How far Contemporaneous with Man.—Stone Period.—Modes of Sepulture.—The Physical Condition of the Soil.—Its Fauna.—Skulls of the Stone Period.—The Bronze Period.—Gold Ornaments.—Alloys and Castings.—How far Native or Foreign.—Effect of the Introduction of Metals.—Dwellings.	1
CHAPTER II.
Authorities for the Earliest Historical Period.—Herodotus.—Aristotle.—Polybius.—Onomacritus.—Diodorus Siculus.—Strabo.—Festus Avienus.—Ultimate sources.—Damnonii.—Phoenician Trade.—The Orgies.—South-Eastern Britons of CÆsar.—The Details of his Attacks.—The Caledonians of Galgacus.	38
CHAPTER III.
Origin of the Britons.—Kelts of Gaul.—The BelgÆ.—Whether Keltic or German.—Evidence of CÆsar.—Attrebates, BelgÆ, Remi, Durotriges and Morini, Chauci and Menapii.	58
CHAPTER IV.[vi]
The Picts.—List of Kings.—Penn Fahel.—Aber and Inver.—The Picts probably, but not certainly, Britons.	76
CHAPTER V.
Origin of the Gaels.—Difficulties of its Investigation.—Not Elucidated by any Records, nor yet by Traditions.—Arguments from the Difference between the British and Gaelic Languages.—The British Language spoken in Gaul.—The Gaelic not known to be spoken in any part of the Continent.—Lhuyd's Doctrine.—The Hibernian Hypothesis.—The Caledonian Hypothesis.—Postulates.	83
CHAPTER VI.
Roman Influences.—Agricola.—The Walls and Ramparts of Adrian, Antoninus, and Severus.—Bonosus.—Carausius.—The Constantian Family.—Franks and Alemanni in Britain.—Foreign Elements in the Roman Legions.	90
CHAPTER VII.
Value of the Early British Records.—True and Genuine Traditions Rare.—Gildas.—Beda.—Nennius.—Annales Cambrenses.—Difference between Chronicles and Registers.—Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.—Irish Annals.—Value of the Accounts of the Fifth and Sixth Centuries.—Questions to which they apply.	104
CHAPTER VIII.
[vii]The Angles of Germany: their comparative obscurity.—Notice of Tacitus.—Extract from Ptolemy.—Conditions of the Angle Area.—The Varini.—The Reudigni and other Populations of Tacitus.—The Sabalingii, &c., of Ptolemy.—The Suevi Angili.—Engle and Ongle.—Original Angle Area.	142
CHAPTER IX.
The Saxons—of Upper Saxony—of Lower, or Old Saxony.—Nordalbingians.—Saxons of Ptolemy.—Present and Ancient Populations of Sleswick-Holstein.—North-Frisians.—Probable Origin of the name Saxon.—The Littus Saxonicum.—Saxones Bajocassini.	165
CHAPTER X.
The Angles of Germany—Imperfect Reconstruction of their History—Their Heroic Age.—Beowulf.—Conquest of Anglen.—Anecdote from Procopius.—Their Reduction under the Carlovingian Dynasty.—The Angles of Thuringia.	200
CHAPTER XI.
Recapitulations and Illustrations.—Propositions respecting the Keltic Character of the Original Occupants of Britain, &c.—The Relations between the Ancient Britons and the Ancient Gauls, &c.—The Scotch Gaels.—The Picts.—The Date of the Germanic Invasions.—The names Angle and Saxon.	219
CHAPTER XII.
Analysis of the Germanic Populations of England.—The Jute Element Questionable.—Frisian Elements Probable.—Other German Elements, how far Probable.—Forms in -ing.	232
CHAPTER XIII.[viii]
The Scandinavians.—Forms in -by: their Import and Distribution.—Danes of Lincolnshire, &c.; of East Anglia; of Scotland; of the Isle of Man; of Lancashire and Cheshire; of Pembrokeshire.—Norwegians of Northumberland, Scotland, and Ireland, and Isle of Man.—Frisian forms in Yorkshire.—Bogy.—Old Scratch.—The Picts possibly Scandinavian.—The Normans.	244

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